Shanghai, Jan. 20.
OME idea of the damage done to the best-known centres of London by Nazi-bombers is, given in a letter just received by Shanghailander from a correspondent at Home, who lost every~ thing in a hurried evacuation from France and arrived in London in time for the worst of the Nazi raids. He calls his letter a dull effusion".
Readers can judge for themselves.
London, Oct. 27.
You cannot imagine what 'a joy your letter was to me and how I Tapped up all its intensely-interesting news, It was just grand to hear all the bits about the dear old frlends—the next best thing to being amongst. you all again, 'And now—what has happened to us. all? T don't know where to begin to tell you what has happened to us, and life is now such perpetual ruddy blush that I must put it in a nutshell. 'We had a few hours' notice to quit Lyons, and left on June 17, just before the Boches walked in, "We were too Jate to make Bordeaux and had turn south, and eventually Teached Séte on' the Mediterranean, There we were stuck for five days, and on the point of trying to smug gle ourselves into Spain when by} the grace of God a British destroyer put In, took us off, and dumped us on a troopship. We picked up a convoy_at Gib, and after a fortnight's fearful journey, arrived at Liverpool on July 8,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.