The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-28
j. S. MARINES
SAGA GROWING.
Brigade on Guard Duty at
Shanghai Provides
Latest Chapter
Bv GRATTAN McGROARlY
Irn;t.J Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S. (uPl
One hundred siXty-two years OF
trooping "frOm the halls of Mon
tezuma to the shores of Tripoh
and again the corps is singing:
"If the army and the navy ever
gaze on heavens scenes,
They'll find the streets are guard
ed by United States Marines
Thus the history Of the marine
CORPS is summed up and the dra-
matte story continues with new
chapters being written while a
bridage of "devil dogs STANDS
guard over American lives ana
property in war-snattered Shang-
hal. l,,, ~
is the official Technology Of the
sea soldiers activities, ranging
from pirate fighting in the Carlo-
bean and "bush war" against saw
age South Sea islanders to front
line service in the World war
SERVE ALL OVER WORLD ,
Their routine" has carried
them into the following countries,
some of them on several occa-
sions: Dominican Republic, Mar,
uesas Islands, Tripoh, Falkland
Island. Puerto Rico, Sumatra,
Argentine. Peru, FIJI Islands, a
nan. Drummonds Islands, Samoa,
Africa Johanna Island, Near
aqua. Iuchu Islands, Siam, China,
Colombia, Uruguay, Formosa,
Chile. Hawaiian Islands, Mexico,
Korea, France, Egypt, Haiti,
Honduras. NaasSa Iseland, Trini-
dad, Syria, Ethiopia. Panama,
Russia. Cuba and Siberia.
Created in a troublous time
Just prior to the reolt of the IL
colonies against England. the
corps has typified the traditional
esprit of '76" eer since.
The continental congress, by
act of November 10, 1878, passed
a resolution organizing a marine
corps of two battalions. The con-
gress hardly realized at that time
that it was creating what would
become one Of the most impor-
tant instrumentalities in the
hands of the government, in war
and peace. ~
IN WASHINGTON'S ARMY
Less than a year after their or
ganization and almost before the
completion of thei rtralnlng
course, limited as it was, the ma
rines saw action in the Colonial
Revolutionary war and played a
CONSPICUOUS part in some of the
outstanding sea duels fought by
John Paul Jones. One battalion
served in George Washington's
army and distinguished itself IN
action.
The years that followed the
Revolution were comparatively
peaceful ones for the corps, but
in the War of 1912 the young
"devil dog" organization agan
sprang into prominence. The
treaty of Paris, ending this con-
flict, was signed in 1914. but the
Fighting marines were Just be-
ginning. Boarding naval vessels,
they sailed for the Mediterranean
where a year later they crushed
the "Barbary Corsairs.'
FOUGHT MUTINOUS BRITISH
simultaneously, small detach-
ment of marines, serving. with
Commodore David Porter in the
Pacific, guarded Porter's naval
base in the Marquesas Islands for
q number of months and hal
many experiences fighting natives
and mutinous British prisoners OIL
war who were left with them by
Porter. -,
Tn the years leading up to the
Mexican war, 1S44-4S, the ma
rines served with the army in the
Seminole Indian wars, with the
navy in operations against pirates
in the West Indies and with a
naval squadron on the West Al
rican coast which was assisting to
suppress the slave trade.
In the Mexican war, the ma
rines were prominent in the con-
quest of California, assisting IN
the capture Of Monterey, San
Francisco. San Diego, San Pedro
ond oS Angeles.
POLICED LATIN AMERICA
After the Spanish American
war the marines were known as
the "strong arm" of the state de-
partment, engaging in numerous
"police duties in Latin America,
the most oteworthy of which was
the expeditions into Nicaragua to
fight the bandit leader SANDING.
With the advent Of the Roose-
Welt administration, the marines
were withdrawn from Latin
American territory, but their pc
Rod of uuietude was short, as the
Shanghai war was in the offing
and many of them returned to
grounds where their uniform was
we'll known as result Of their ac-
tivities in the Boxer uprising.
The corps consists of about
100 officers and 1900 enlist
ed men.