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(aged 4) joins with much devotion, She and Shirley are sweet and are great fun. Laurrie is very happy and comfortable here, while we also provide free meals for another English nurse, who was out of a job before 8th Dec, and now quite destitute. The former employees, in the Custome, must soon become the same as all British and Americon members of the Customs Service were diami soed on Dec. 31st and so far I understand have not been able to obtain any pay or retiring gratuities since that date.
I had a letter early in January from Rhonwen (Shanghai) my sole correspondent outside the K.L.A. since Dec, 8th. She was then in her own house and very happy to be with Dick and Tr.Thorngato (who is treating her), rather than with Patricia in Canada. She wrote that she was well and that they had all been kindly treated by Kistemato, the new Inspector General, (1 have heard here that Sir Frederic Maze, the former 1.0. is imprisoned in Shanghai-Isábel?) She told me that Georgie and Harold Reynell were living with Dean and Mrs. Irwett, and that Belle Howell had been staying with her, but had now moved into rooms nearby.
News from the ontside world gets woantier altnough allies and neutrals still retain their short-wavo radios. British and American radios have been either confiscated or sealed ours the latter which meane that wo still can
The only use the gramophone, which we do very rarely,
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paper is the Peking Chronicle which is edited by Von Wedekind and lo entirely Ixis - the only interest in reading it is in what it does not say! "
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