FIRST IN CHINA | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 10, 1900

“FIRST IN CHINA.”

New York Sun.

THE most interesting experience yet offered to American soldiers lies before the officers and men of the Ninth United States Infantry. This regiment has been ordered to China to protect American interests, religious and profane, in the capital of the Celestial Empire. A regiment that within two years serves in Cuba, the United States, the Philippine Islands, and China, certainly will hold the record for variety of service. That is what the Ninth United States Infantry will have done. . . .

We doubt that any regiment in any other army has ever seen service in so many countries in so short a time as the Ninth Infantry will have seen. “Primus in Indis” is the motto borne by the First Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment, the Thirty-ninth Foot, of the British Army, because it was the first British regiment to serve in Hindustan. Our Ninth Infantry can well hereafter bear the motto “First in China.”