Shanghai, Apr. 15.
EWS of former Shanghailanders now at home is contained in an interesting letter received here recently from Mr. J. C. E. Rye. Mr, Rye also outlines the general feeling of people at home in regard to the world situation, besides repeating that "we are deter ed not to lay down the sword till Nazism is beaten to pulp." The general feeling is one of extreme confidence in the outcome of the struggle, and, as the writer points out, sooner or later the occupied and oppressed countries of Europe must rise in arms og: st their tyrant and overthrow him. The letter gollows:—
"Yesterday in the 'Coal-Hole' in the Strand T met Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mason. 'Mason was with the "North-China Daily News" for some years-as Advertising Manager, He is just back from Bermuda and' showed me the following from "The Royal Gazelte and Colonist Daily of Bermuda." As 1am not allowed by the censors to forward any printed matter Jetters, I copy the cutting for the benefit of Mason's many friends in the Far East:—
Rermuda, January 1% 194 Pijna sulat ceremony In old Church, Devonshire, 'Miss 'Marjorie 'Watlington, daughter' of" Sir Wallington," of Woodside, "Devonshis was married "ta Var Mason, of Biimingham, England, Yesterday afternoon at o'clock "The service was conducted by Lordship the Bishop of Bermuda, assistd'by'the Rev. Mer Little. 'The' church Was decorated with gladioli "The bride had as her, matron-othonour her sister, Mra, Bayard Dil Major Battrum was the best "The couple are to leave for England, where they Will make their home.
"Mason looks younger than ever He told me that he had met John Keswick, of the Ministry of Economic Warfare, and Strachan, of the London Scottish and formerly of the N.C: D.N, He told me that "BIN" Holland had been killed in action. I never knew that, "Of Shanghai hands I have met Martin, who used to be with Jardine's book office, lastly in Hongkong, and Ferris, who is with the London Dolly Dalgarno is cook with some regiment or other. Mellows, late of the Shanghai Revenue OMe, lives in South Harrow. Lunched with him and his daughter the other day. He was a building contractor up to the outbreak of the war.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.