Although the war is two years over, and available shipping has increased enormously, the difficulty of getting passages, in either dire2- tion, between England and the Far East is a matter of common knowledge. Which makes the following well authenticated incident the more—shall we say astonishing One of our readers met in Shanghai a German whoui he had known before the war. Knowing also that the German had been deported from China last year, he expressed surprise at seeing him. It appeared that the German had gone from Hamburg to Grimsby, thence to Liverpool and there had obtained passage by a well known British line. When asked how, he answered with a satisfied smile: "Oh I've a bit of a pull at the offices." Now considering that there are British firms in the Far East. short-handed, and with men at Home ready to come out, but for whom applications for passages any and every shipping agency have failed, this sort of thing is calculated to make one feel hot under the collar. If it is an isolated instance, this note may be a warning to others not to do likewise. But is it?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.