The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-01-02
Is a Legation
Guard in Chine

In the course of letter to The
Daily Record few days ago from
Mrs r. A. Lewis. Oakland, Cal for
merly of this city. she makes the fol-
lowing mention of her son. Everett,
Canon City boy now In the military
service Of the government in the Far
East. She says:
Our son Everett Joined the marine
corps of the army when the United
States entered the war and was sta.
toned for a short time after his enlist
ment at Mare Island. Cal. where he
completed. with others. three
months course of military training in
a little less than six weeks. He was
soon after sent to the Philippine
Island and is now guard at the
American legation at Pekin, China. He
qualified as an expert rifeman. and is
now proudly wearing the badge Of that
branch OF service.
"He studied radio telegraphy dur
ing his spare time. besides taking
special course OF instruction with a
prominent Eastern correspondence
school. Only recently he was de-
tached from the signal service. and
We feel that he is making good.
His letters from China are inter
esting. telling of his work there and
the peculiar attractions of the coun-
try. In message received from him
yesterday he describes q hike to the
great wall and other historical OBJ
tects and localities in the vicinity of
Pekin. 1t was dated 1--WE days after
the signing of the armistice and shows
the great satisfaction that event pro
duced in China. He says: Well. II
looks like the war was over and I
suppose the people OF the good old
United States are turning things up
side down In celebration of the eyerty
With just the few soldiers available
here they raised the dickens in the
matter OF its commemoration. We
have had some kind OF . parade every
day since the German collapse. The
first one was given by the United
States marines. who serenaded all of
the Allied legations in Pekin. They
were escorted back to their barracks
by detachment Of French troops,
who have also had some kind OF
jubilee every day since Gen. roch
clipped the taions OF the German ea-
giles. On other days the other iega.
ton guards and Chinese soldiers pa
raded. Yesterday $4,000 Chinese
school boys and Boy Scouts made the
biggest demonstration of the kind we
have had here. This morning (No-
vcmber l6 We had military parade
of all the Allied troops in the order in
which the countries they represent en-
tered the war. Russia. Belgium.
France, England. Japan. Italy. the
United States and China. There are
only two Russians here and one of
them carried the Russian fag in the
marching column aud the other acted
ss guard for the Belgian colors.
Each flag had six color guards. one
from each nation. exxceut the Belgian
standard. There are no Belgians
here and their fiag was carried by a
Fronchman.
France was represented by few
men who had been wounded while
serving in the trenches. and BY the
French and Chinese troops who are
acting as a legation guard here.
Great Britain WIS represented by Brit
ish subjects from India. with Eng
lfsh officers commanding them. All
OF the other nations were represented
by detachments from their own
armies.
'Of course, there may have been
larger and more elaborate armis,ice
day parades in the United States than
here. but doubt IL they could get
troops froa, eight different nations.
all wearinE their accustomed military
uniform. TO take part as we did here ;"