The following letter was received via Siberia from a Shanghai boy, who after flying for a time with the RAF., was brought down and taken prisoner by the Germans. He has now been in captivity for some eight months, and has apparently been quite well treated. Extracts from the letter follow:
"Have received no mail from you at all this month, but have hopes as mail from England appears to be increasing, I received B's June air mail (from North China) also a parcel of books from her a few days ago, by the way if you happen to send books omit the Penguin Series as they are banned at present, "Red Cross has broken down the past three months but we still live in hopes; we have had quite a lot of snow but it has not been as cold as expected, We had a fairly decent Christmas mostly composed of beer, alas no pudding from..........times goes, it seems hardly over six months now, specially as we have so little to do, you seem under the impression that mail ete, to me is restricted, it ip not so, only parcels from England are, and my outgoing mail, Have you heard that "Davy" who was at School with me has a D.FC. medal, received sometime in June,—most of my pals are well up now, "There is a naval lieutenant with us who was on board H.MS...... in' Shanghai during 1938, Please send any magazines, etc, you can and write often to this camp. My best wishes for a Happy Year,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.