The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-28
MARNES' SAGA STILL GROWING.
 162 YEARS OLD
Brigade on Guard Duty at Shanghai Writes Latest
 Chapter
BY GRATTAN McGROARTY United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff COrrespOndent) Washington, Sept. 26-(UP)-I One hundred sixty-two years of trooping from the halls of Mon- tezurna 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 guarded
 by United States Marines"
 Thus the history of the Marine Corps is summed up and the dra- matic story continues with new chapters being written while a brigade of "devil dogs" stands guard over American lives and property in shattered shang- hai.
 Routine performance of duty" is the official terminology of the sea soldiers activities, ranging from pirate fighting in the Carib- bean and "bush war" against sav- 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 occasions: Domin- 1can Republic, Marquesas Islands, Tripoli, Falkland Islands, Puerto Rico, Sumatra, Argentina, Peru, Fiji Islands, Samoa, Africa Johanna Is- land, Nicaragua, Luchu Islands, Siam, China, Colombia, Uruguay, FormoSa, Chile, Hawaiian Islands, Mexico, Korea, France. Egypt, Haiti, Honduras, Navassa Island, Trinidad, Syria, Ethiopia, Panama, Russia, Cuba and Siberia.
 Created in the troublous time just prior to the revolt of the Thirteen colonies against England, the corps has typifled the traditional spirit of '76" ever since.
 The Continental congress, by act of Nov. 10, 177S, passed a resolution organizing Marine corps of two battalins. The congress hardly real ized at that time that 1t was creating what would become one of the most important ir1strumentalities in the hands of the government, in war and peace.
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 Lessthan a year after their or ganization and almost before the completion of their training course, limited as 1t was, the Marines saw action in the Colonial Revolutionary war and played a consuicuous part |. some of the outstanding sea duels fAeht by John Paul Jones. One beS.alion served in George Washing tons army and distinguished itself in action.
 The years that followed the revo- lution were comparatively peaceful oiles for the corps, but in the war of 18I2 the young "devil dog" organiza- ton again Sprang into prominaece. The treaty of Paris, ending this conflict, was signed in 1914, but the fighting Marines" were just begin ming. Boarding naval vessels, they sailed for the Mediterranean where year later they crushed the Bar bary CorSairs."
 Fought MutinouS British
 Simultaneously, a small detach- rnent of Marines, serving with Com modore David Porter in the Pacific, guarded Porter's vessel base in the MarqueSas Islands for a number of months and had many experiences fighting natives and mutinous Brit ish prisoners of war who were left with them by Porter.
 In the years leading up to the Mexican war, 1S44-48, the Marines. served with the army in the Semi- nole Indian wars, with the navy in operations against pirates in the West Indies and with naval squad- ron on the West African coast which was assisting to suppress the slave trade. ...
 In the Mexican war, the Marines were prominent in the conquest of California, assisting in the capture of Monterey, San Francisco, San Diego, San Pedro and Los Angeles.
 Pollced Latin America
 After the Spanish h-American war the Marines were known as, the strong arm" of the state depart ment, engaging in numerous police duties" in Latin American, the most noteworthy of which was the expe- ditions into Nicaraugua to fight the bandit leader Sandino.
 With the advent of the RooSe- welt administration, the Marines were withdrawn from Latin Ameri- can territory, but their period of quietude was short, as the Shanghai war was in the offing and many of