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Show THE BULLETIN Proposed Memorial on Historic Field of Yorktown Would Be Symbolic of Friendship of Two Groups of 'First-Cla- Fightin' Men ss British and American By ELMO SCOTT WATSON a western Newspaper union. N THE historic field of Yorktown in Virginia there may soon be fwt..' jMf.'Tf.JBWcyj5 srm&. wl 'nnstaBy. r- urn i n i im erected a uniaue memorial. V a monument tn tViP 'friendship of two groups of "nrst-cias- s nghtin' men who are bound together by more than one tie of common interest, the greatest of which 'It will I 'is that they have stood d, shoulder to shoulder against a common enemy. These two , groups are me uritisn army's Royal Welch Fusiliers and 'the United States Marines. The first time these men served together was ;39 years ago this June dur ing tne iamous Boxer Rebel lion in North China. As the result of steady aggressions against China by European 'nations, an organization of Chinese patriots, who called 'themselves Boxers and who sought to preserve China for the Chinese, raised the rallying cry of "Kill the foreign devils!" and fell upon the white communities in and near Peking. Many of the foreigners were killed and the remainder were besieged Cup presented by officers of the Royal Welch Fusiliers to officers in the legation quarter of the mm a tT!l u we uuuca marinem corps in memory or inelr service toeeth- bums Chinese capital. 4.1. m J vr uuruiff tuc DOXCT tteDCIUOII. When the news I a m I J ; J .ef At- of this outbreak was flashed to the world all the whose nationals governments were involved immediately sent expeditionary forces to China. The first objective was Tientsin where the foreign population with some 900 sailors and soldiers were desperately trying to hold out against the onslaughts of hordes of Chinese fanatics. The first attempt to relieve them failed when a column of American Marines and Russian troops were driven back to their base by overwhelming numbers of the enemy. There the Marines were reinforced by other Marines and they were also joined by the Second battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers despatched from Hong Kong under the command of Major Morris. Tientsin Captured. Then this combined British and American force advanced toward Tientsin. When Major Morris fell wounded, the command was assumed by the next in rank, Maj. Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller of the Marine corps, and the Fusiliers and Marines fought side by side in the series of actions which resulted in the capture of the Chinese city and the rescue of the beleaguered foreigners. Among them, incidentally, was a young mining engineer, then comparatively unknown but destined for future fame as the President of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover. During the fighting which folas the allied armies lowed, moved on Peking, the close association of the Fusiliers and lis Marines continued and so great The Royal Welch Fusiliers has one of the most interesting histo ries of any regiment in the Brit ish army. It dates back 250 year to 1689 when, after the blood less revolution of 1688 forced James II to flee to France, leaders in the English parliament asked William of Orange, presi dent of the Dutch republic, whose wife, Mary, was the eldest daughter of the deposed King James, to ascend the throne of England, One condition was imposed upon the new ruler. The throne was to be assumed in the name of Mary but William was to admin ister the affairs of the country. So the reign of William and Mary began. One of the first acts of the new monarchs was to grant to the people of England, the Bill of Rights. To protect the liberties granted to his people, William III raised immediately an army of 25 regiments of foot (infantry). One of was en these, the Twenty-thirlisted along the border counties of Wales among the descendants of the ancient Britons who were followers of the Welsh chieftains, Llewellen and his brother, Da vid. It was first known as Her bert's Twenty-thir- d Foot, after Lord Herbert of Chirbury, who raised the regiment, and his cousin, Col. Charles Herbert, who first commanded it. Baptism of Fire. When King William took the field with his new army against the forces of James II and his al ly, Louis XIV of France, which had been raised to restore the deposed English king, Herbert's Twenty-thir- d Foot had its baptism of fire under the eyes of King William at the Battle of the Boyne on July 1, 1690. Its rec ord of gallantry on that historic field has continued unbroken for 250 years. In recognition of its services in Marlborough s cam paigns against the French in the early Eighteenth century, the prince of Wales, later King George I, conferred upon the regiment the title of "The Prince of Wales Own Royal Regiment of Welch Fusiliers." a title which has been shortened to the better known Royal Welch Fusiliers. Like other British regiments. the Royal Welch have what they call their "battle honours" names of the most conspicuous battles in which they served em blazoned upon their regimental standards. Among them are Co- runna, where the fallen Sir John Moore was "buried darkly at dead of night" ; Lucknow, with its memory of the Highlanders, the MacGregors and the Campbells and the thrilling rescue; Blen heim, Inkerman, Ramilles, Waterloo, Oudenarde and nearly a score of others all bright pages in England's military history. Although the Royal Welch served throughout the American Revolution there are no names of battles on the soil of the United States emblazoned on the regiment's banner. Ask a Fusilier today why and his reply will reflect the sentiment which makes appropriate the proposed memorial: "Tradition says our predecessors of those days did not wish the memory of our American battles recalled that is all we know." CIA m .... From August, 1937, until February of last year the same Second rank of major general in the Ma rine corps before he was retired. battalion of the Royal Welch and Before his death several years the Fourth regiment of the Ma. ago he suggested that the associrines were stationed along Soo-- ation of the Fusiliers and the Ma cnow creek, bordering the forrines, representative forces of the eign settlements of Shanghai ta defenses of the two leading deguard British and American citi- mocracies of the world, be imzens and property when the Jap- mortalized in a permanent me anese attacked that city. morial and that an appropriate for it would be at place Service. Revolutionary York-tow- n. The close association of these two military units in 1900 and is in striking conagain in 1937-3trast to the first contact of the Fusiliers with American men-at-arms. That took place more than 150 years ago and they were then enemies instead of friends. For the Royal Welch were amone the troops sent to America in 1775 to help subdue the rebellious English colonies on this continent and they served in almost every major engagement of the Revo lution, beginning with the Battle ox Lexington ana ending with the surrender of Cornwall is at York-town. Among the defenses erected hv that British leader, when he was penned up in the Virginia seaoort. was a fortifi cation on the right of the British line. It is pointed out today to visitors to the Colonial National Historical nark as the "Fusiliers Redoubt" because it was held by a remnant of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (who had been decimated during the seven years of war fare in America) assisted by a few British marines. They held this redoubt against three attacks by Washington's French allies under Count Rochambeau and 8 ill-fat- star-shaoe- d Gen. Richards' Speech. His suggestion was repeated and given emphasis in an address made this year by Brig. Gen. George Richards, United States Marine corps (ret.) speaking before the annual meeting and dinner of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Virginia, held on February 22. in honor of Washington's birthday, he reviewed the history of the association of these two military units, recalled General Waller's suggestion that the memorial be erected on the. field of Yorktown and concluded: "When, 13 or more years ago, that proposal was made, international politics with the problems of statesmanshio a field at all times not the responsibility of the active soldier presented not the clear outlines that are todav ap parent to the vision of our oeo- ple. This condition then led the followers and associates .of General Waller to turn elsewhere lest that memory be lost. We id. pealed to the talent of the late John Philip Sousa. At the spring dinner of the Gridiron club in Washington.' in 1930. there came from the gifted baton of that the last of great composer his .many. manymilitary marches, the very last: "The March of the Royal Welch Fusi liers," dedicated to the Marine corps. As the strains of that martial music faded awav. from the lips of the President of the United Mates came his story of the siege of Tientsin, the burden of care and anxiety lifted from the shoul ders of that young mining engi neer and his associates, how from across 10.000 miles of sea. the might of two great nations had reached afar to say their people in China should not die. ... History Repeats Itself. "That recent reunion at Shanghai of last year history repeating itself with its revival of the recollections of the like service in North China of 1900 has recalled to the veteran officers of that campaign the almost forgotAir view of the "Fusiliers Redoubt" on the Yorktown battlefield. ten and unfulfilled wish of the late Maj. Gen. Littleton Waller was the admiration of the Royal after the siege the French gen- Tazewell Waller of Virginia. Welrh for the American major erals gave their unstinted praise These veterans wish that under that one of their officers is quoted to the stubbornness of the re- your auspices under the of aegis as having declared "Just give sistance which they had encoun- the Society of the Sons of the us Waller we will go anywhere tered there. They could scarceRevolution of his native state, the with him." At the end of the cam- ly believe that so few men in this proposal of one of Virginia's dispaign in China Major Waller and fortification had been able to hold tinguished soldiers, be submitted the officers of the First battal- in check their superior numbers. for the reaction of America's ion of the Marines received from Lord Cornwallis, also, in his offithe officers of the Fusiliers a sil- cial report of the capitulation, public.' "It is not sufficient that that ver loving cup, engraved with all paid a glowing tribute to the of a common service memory their names, and presented in courage and bulldog tenacity of be preserved only in martial mumemory of their service together. the Fusiliers. sic and solely to the ear of the Moreover, since that time it has If the memorial mensoldier. It deserves now to be become custom for the officers tioned atproposed the beginning of this perpetuated in the wider field- -to of the Fusiliers and the Marines article is erected it will be the eye of the public in the placed to exchange messages of greet- here. The first for chosen way of that departed leadsuggestion ing on St. David's day (March 1), such a memorial came from the er of ours. American public opinan anniversary observed by all major of the American Marines ion, it is confidently believed, will loyal Welshman. who won the admiration and re- support the project. More, in Us The years passed. Once more spect of the Fusiliers during the larger sense in its wider import, the Fusiliers and the Marines Boxer rebellion Littleton Waller measured by the trend and aswere "brothers-in-arms- " and this Tazewell Waller. Major Waller, pect of these times our people time it was again on Asiatic soil. who was a Virginian, rose to the will applaud our effort." - . e Although the United States Ma rines are a much younger mili tary unit than the Royal Welch Fusiliers, they, too, have a long and honored tradition back of them. The Marine corps is the oldest active armed force in the United States, antedating both the army and the navy. It was organized by the Continental congress on November 10, 1775, nine months before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Marine Traditions. The Marines, like the Fusiliers. preserve their traditions by certain symbols or customs. One of these symbols is the sword which their officers wear. It is described in the regulations as "one with a Mameluke hilt, curved or scimi tar blade and bright metal scab bard." It came about in this way: In 1805 'fi young Virginian named Presley Neville O'Bannon, first lieutenant in the Marine corps, with Midshipman Peck, a sergeant and six privates from the Marines, formed a part of the motley army of Greeks, Turks and Mameluke Arabs which William Eaton, President Thomas Jefferson's naval agent in the Mediterranean, led against the stronghold of Derna, held by Yu- suf, bashaw of Tripoli. Yusuf, who had deposed his brother, Ahmet, had been preying upon American commerce and enslaving American sailors. Eaton's plan was to help restore to the Tripolitan throne the former bashaw, Ahmet, who would thereafter respect American rights in the Mediterranean. Young O'Bannon took part in that epic march of 600 miles across African deserts and in the storming of the fortress of Derna where for the first time in history the Stars and Stripes were hoisted over an Old world fort ress, in appreciation ox his services, Ahmet presented O'Bannon with a sword with a Mameluke hilt and this sword became the model for the weapon which has been the symbol of authority for Marine officers from that time on. O'Bannon's exploit also is memorialized in the first line of the famous "Hymn of the Ma- - She knew I had been holding that for my trump card so she was prepared: "Entirely casual." "Would Jerry call it casual if he knew everything?" "Absurd! Just because Barry and 86 I had "Reunion in Vienna?" a flirtation that didn't mean By DARRAGH ALDRICH a darn it doesn't give Jerry thing, McCIur Newspaper Syndicate. f) WNU Service. an excuse for . . ." (I refused to help her out "and I am certainly' NOT going to take him back if that' teaold FOUND that the quaint is what are trying to make me room Ye Green Parrot had be- do." (I you iald nothing) "I won't be come one of those modernistic I won't! Shut up!" semi-bar- s where chromium Both of us shut up. lighting zigzags across an inky sky. Suddenly. Just at my shoulder I. The place was all but empty. heard a voice that made my heart Tea hour or cocktail hour, rather do a goiter stunt in my throat was not yet There was Jerry looking straight X followed the slithering figure of intc the eyes of the girl who sat op--' the animated poster-i- n charge, sat in posite me. i the chair she pulled out for me and He said: "Hello: Certainly never drew off my gloves. expected" Thank God I could be alone! 7 saw her swallow quickly and' Then I looked up and met haggard turn a bit pale under her rouge. eyes staring directly into mine. I felt sort of sick. On her next For an instant I did not recognize words hung all of the rest of her life. her. She lifted her chin and met his eyes Though of course I had had the with the glint of a smile. sneaking feeling all along that she "Neither did L Hardly recognized would come. the place. Green Parrot gone futurI nodded at her and said: "Hi, old dearl So you came after alL Well, istic. They call it--" He said: "I don't care what they Just to cheer you I'll tell you that you're looking so much better than call it as long as you're here." But, the last time I saw you that hon- though she smiled, she didn't weaken. Not so that he would notice, estly didn't know you first off." anyhow. She was as casual as if True enough anyhow. Last time I had seen her she had she had not been in court all mornbeen and old, with ing listening to his name and hers being dragged through the mud. lines about the mouth. desperate "Pat" he went on raggedly. (He and I Considering everything mean everything she now looked hay nice eyes. Fine, honest eyes.) "Let's take it op again just where far more like the petted mistress of we left off at Ye Green Parrot It's a millionaire than the pitied wife of damn' modern, of course and gone a clever young physician who had cocktails Instead of tea but if s it's tabin been the all just pictured loids as a profligate in the role of the same old joint Same old coyou here. God! I never corespondent Maybe It was the rnerand old times would come dared hope of dip the green hat She smiled bitterly at my remark. again . . ." She laughed at him out of the cor' i Bitterness was not becoming so I ners of her eyes. took another tack. "They haven't Not until you take I offered my cigarette case. that place opposite me and shut We each took one silently. off my reflection in that fool mirror. I was the only friend she had who A place lined with mirrors givei me knew all about the thing she had been through and neither pitied nor the jitters." blamed her. Everybody has to go through a few U. S. Synthetic Materials hells and I saw no reason why she Bring New Independence should consider herself the excepAmerican-mad- e tion. synthetic materiare not only making us indeals All of her life she had been so damn' smug that a jolt like this pendent of foreign raw material supmight do her good. Even if it came plies, but are affording us better manufactured products, particularly hard. "As long as you're bound to take in paints and enamels, according to it that way," I accused her, "why recent studies made by chemists. In a comparison of today's syndid you come here when there were thetic finishes with the natural prodhundreds of other places to go?" ucts of the 1920s, chemists have "Why shouldn't IT" "Because it's sentimental." I conclusively established the great "You are dramatizing advances made in the production of sneered. yourself again. You came here to better synthetic materials. ooze deliriously with memories of Examples of these strides, It Is pointed out may be seen in today's the dear, dead days beyond recall complete enameling of washing maand all that" chines, stoves and other appliances She flashed into anger. "What if I did? I certainly ought In three to five minutes, the quick to rate that at least as salvage of a drying, the refinishlng enamels that cover better than five life." coats did a dozen years ago, and I snorted. "This is the time for you to cut the great increase in hardness, and the sentimentality and brace up. Most First place you had no business to of the improvements are due to the come here to mope just because it use of synthetic resins made of carwas the place that you and Jerry bolic acid, glycerin, acetylene, or a used to come in that year before chemical called "urea" to replace you were married, ecstatically sip- natural gum from trees. New synthetic ping tea instead of cocktails." pigments, say There was a hurt look in her eyes chemists, such as titanium, which is derived from but she had to get the truth. certain The waitress had placed' some- sea coast sands found in this counin front of try, have 10 times the covering powthing poisonous-lookiner of the older lead or zinc pigme. I suppose I must have ordered it ments, and make finishing Here's hoping it would be a potent possible in the home or factory. These new pigments are used exenough bracer. I stubbed my cigarette on the tensively by the automobile induschromium and black ashtray. Then try. A new method of making enamI went at her deliberately. "You got only what was coming els dry titled "polymerization," has to you, you know." been developed. This new princiI saw her cheeks flush hotly. ple turns liquids to solids in a few "You're insinuating that my play- minutes. Synthetic drying oils are ing around with the Community the- also being perfected to make this ater group is to blame for Jerry's country Independent of fluctuating being named as corespondent in the foreign supplies. This was made Wilson divorce case?" connecessary by the flict which shut off the suiroliea of I shrugged. 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