Shanghai, Oct. 24.
RAINING conditions among'the troops at Home were described in a letter recently received from a former Shanghai boy who is well-known here as a sportsman, having distinguished himself as a goal-keeper. with one of the local senior football teams.
He joined up with one of the battalions which was in Shanghai, and went with them to India.
From that country, his adventures are told in his own words, The fod situation at Home and how the public are reacting to Nazi air letter follows:—- raids are well recounted. The After a couple of months of en-foreed silence due to the exigencies of the service (yood old stand-by excuse!) in the shape of six weeks fon the high seas and mountains of work since cur arrival in this country, T can now write again and tell you all about myself and what has happened to me since my last letter.
Tam not quite stite as to the date fof that last Tetter of mine. It must have been written about a month before our sudden departure from our last station—at the latest, two weeks, for about the middle of May. How: ever, Iam going to date this narrative from the beginning of June and Teave you to guess the hurly-burly of life around me when we received 72 hours notice to move—and no destina~ tion given, 'We sailed from Bombay on June 6 and 24 hours later were told' where we were going, Two days afterwards Moly declared war and the Mediterranean route was closed to us. So wwe turned south and came Heme via the Cape of Good Hope, stopping Durban, Cape Town, Takoradi in the Gold Coast, and Freetown in Sierra Leone,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.