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Show brit! sends chinese force COMMANDER OF LAND FORCES BOARDS SHIP AT MALTA WITH TWO BATTALIONS Peking and Cantonese Government End Parleys; U. S. Moves Slow London Bound for China with Major Ma-jor General John Duncan, who will command the land forces in the far at, aboard, the Mesantls departed from Malta after the embarking of two battalions, with auxiliaries, medical med-ical forces and nurses. Other transport are steaming for China, which would seem to indicate that the British government will carry throiiRh 11.3 original plan to assemble deimate ships and troops in the disturbed dis-turbed area to protect British nationals nation-als and other foreign residents. As the Mewantlc passed through a line of battleships glittering with lights, the crows manned the sides and there wa great cheering and alnging of "Shanghai" and "Auld Lang Byue." Before his departure, General Duncan Dun-can ia quoted in dispatches from Malta Mal-ta aa expressing the conviction that no trouble would arise. |