The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-27
YANKEE, BRITON AND JAP.
No Fear of "Entangling Alliances
Among Soldiers in China.

No Fear of "Entangling Alliances"
Among Soldiers in China.
Sydney Adamson in letter from Pekin.
The Sixth Cavalry, with Col. Whit at
its head, went days before. The artil-
lery and ninety-two escort wagons,
hauled by four mule teams, made up
this colmun. Then we talked of 1t as
ar event that Gen. Gaselee and Gen.
Barrow, Gen. Stuart and Gen. Richard
son came to watch their departure and
bid them farewell. Many other British
okcers were there and several Japa-
nese. The pipe band of the Twenty sixth
Baluchistan Regiment marched at the
he ad of the column, while Col. Tulloch,
the commander of that regiment, rode
beside Col Whit beyond the south gate
of Pekin.
When the Ninth Infantry left the
pipe bands of the First Sikhs, the
Twenty fourth Punjaub infantry and
the Twenty-sixth Baluchistan Regi-
ment marched with them and kept the
merry tunes going until the train
steamed out of the station. The Japan
csc brass band did it's best to be heard
above the din of the bagpipes. The
Ninth never looked better.
Everything went off without confu"
sion and with no apparent effort. Again
the British and Japanese paid their
compliments to the troops and the Of
ficers of the line, not reserving their
farewell for Gen. Chaffee alone, as the
Germans, the French and some of the
other nations did. Gen. Gaselee and
three other generals of his command
stood on the platform as the long line
of open trucks, with their loads of
A IT,
ers call the boys in blue pulled out
of the station at $40.
There was a crowd of khaki colored
British officers, with a sprinkling of
Japanese. If there were any officers of
other armies present they were in such
small numbers as to be unnoticed /
heard one of the Rajputs estimate that
nearly every British officer in Pekin
must have been there. Every officer on
the train knew every officer on the
platform, and had known him for many
days, to say nothing of the cornwall
nights.
A few "Tommies' had managed to
get leave and they seemed sorry to
lose their Yankee cousins. When the
train moved the campaign hats were
off in an instant, and cheer after cheer
went up, answered by the cheering of
the British officers, who waved their
helmets. Then some of the boys in blue
shouted, Three cheers for the Welsh
Fusileers!" and these were blended in
the rumbling of the wheels as the train
glided round the curve toward the
great gap in the wall of Pekin, where
the railroad runs out.
When Gen. Chaffee arrived on the
platform opposite his private car a dou-
BILE company of Indian troops drew up
and presented arms. A large number of
Japanese officers had gathered to bid
him farewell. Soon the sturdy little
Fukushima was by his side, and then
Gen. Yamaguchi Joined the group. The
British contingent from the Temple of
Heaven soon swelled the gathering to
the dimensions of a crowd Gen. Case
lee reappeared just as Mrs. Rockhill,
dressed in white alighted from her
chair. AS the train steamed slowly
away from the platform, amid the
cheering one could hear the strains of
AUD Lang Syne"; and-shade of Bob
by Burns!-it was played by a Japan
csc band!