After working his way to England from Shanghai, Mr. James Richard Dudley, formerly a probationary Sergeant in the Shanghai Municipal Police, has enlisted as a pilot in the R.A.F. He left Shanghai on May 14, taking charge of seven seamen, and joined a Panamanian freighter, the s. Penelopi, ata northern port in Japan. The Penelopi sailed to Vladivostok, and from there to Portland, Oregon.
At Portland, Dudley visited. the British Consul, who assisted him in signing up, with the s. Condor, a freighter, sailing between Britain and the U.S.A. On this ship he worked his way over to England. He had always expressed a keen desire to join the R.A.F., which has proved to be the Empire's greatest defender, and thus he finally fulfilled his wish.
Many China Britons have chosen the same way of enlisting as Mr. James Dudley, and have worked their way home to join up in one of H.M. services. At ihe present time, how-
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