BRITISH TROOPS.
RELIEF BATTALIONS
(British Official Wireless.) Received August 20, 11.55 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 19.
The British troops under orders to proceed to China in the ordinary course of the reliefs which begin next month ure the Second Battalion Royal Scots at Lahore and the First Battalion Middlesex Regiment at Singapore. Both moves may he expedited, but so far only the Middlesex Battalion is under orders of readiness. It is sailing by the Holt liner Menelaus and will subsequently proceed to Shanghai in a warsnip. According to a Shanghai Press telegram, 900 more British women and children left there to-day for Hong Kong.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 223, 20 August 1937, Page 7
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