The Archive · 1937

PASTIMES CURRENT IN)

SHANGHAI

Taking Pleasures Seriously and Wars Lightly Life goes on. Lots of life has gone on since we started living in No Man's Land with crowds of men. women and children from Chapei, Pootung, Yangtszepoo and Nantao who hadn't any other place to go either. We have become so used to guns and bombs that we hardly notice them now except when they keep us awake after Curfew and we tell the more recently returned evacuees not to pay any attention to noise. If and when miliary activities cease and all our best friends return from Hongkong and Manila we shall evening, entirely cut off from the rest of China and hence, the world.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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