The Marines

P: Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., arrived to command the U. S. marine forces at Shanghai, last week, just as the original orgy of looting quieted (see above). General Butler limped slightly, and correspondents cabled that he seemed in low spirits after his long sea voyage. He said: "There will be nothing but marine good sense in whatever we do in China."

P: U. S. Secretary of the 'Navy Wilbur, interviewed by Washington correspondents last week, recounted to them a little homily about a U.S. marine who served during the Boxer campaign. This marine, said Mr. Wilbur, spoke up and told the commander of certain troops of a certain foreign power that his men ought not to fire at a group of Chinese. The advice was taken, the Chinese spared; but the marine was later rebuked by a U.S. officer for speaking to a foreign officer. "Aw," he replied, "I didn't mean no harm."

Secretary of the Navy Wilbur said that he thought this a very good example of the spirit animating the marine corps, no less today than during Boxer times. P: Near Shanghai, Mr. John Powell, correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, found several U. S. marines guarding a bridge last week and was addressed by one of them as follows: "The English got scared and sent for the Americans to come and help them out. I thought we'd see something doing, but the show's all over and here we are sitting in the rain." P: Fifteen hundred more U.S. marines were ordered to China last week.