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He had just been made “an Associate Member of the Foreign Correspondents Club
of China” because he had been a press attaché in China and because of his
relationship with key people.
“So much has happened. . . we had the tragic shooting on the Yangtse when over 40
men on the HMS ‘Amethyst’, ‘London’ and ‘Consort’ were killed bu Communist shore
batteries. Sophie and I attended the funeral of 26 of them. . . This incident was
followed almost immediately by the occupation of Nanking, and now the opposing
forces are only some thirty kilometres away. . . There is no real panic here, but life is
very difficult from the financial and food supply aspects. Naturally we have to get as
many people out as we can, and I have managed to get nearly a thousand more of
our people away since I last wrote.”
On the social side however, they were obviously popular. They attended a number of
dinner parties and cocktail gatherings, both formal and informal. They also arranged a
number of parties and social gatherings themselves. They managed a tourist trip to
Hangchow where GFA wanted to see the
famous Ling Yin Buddhist temple.
Shanghai The Ling Yin
Buddhist Temple
Hangchow
(Wade-Giles)
On their return, Sophie told her friends that, “after seeing the Hangchow bore I have
decided to keep the one I’ve got at home!”
The Hangchow Bore
The Grand
Movie Theatre
He had just been made “an Associate Member of the Foreign Correspondents Club
of China” because he had been a press attaché in China and because of his
relationship with key people.
“So much has happened. . . we had the tragic shooting on the Yangtse when over 40
men on the HMS ‘Amethyst’, ‘London’ and ‘Consort’ were killed bu Communist shore
batteries. Sophie and I attended the funeral of 26 of them. . . This incident was
followed almost immediately by the occupation of Nanking, and now the opposing
forces are only some thirty kilometres away. . . There is no real panic here, but life is
very difficult from the financial and food supply aspects. Naturally we have to get as
many people out as we can, and I have managed to get nearly a thousand more of
our people away since I last wrote.”
On the social side however, they were obviously popular. They attended a number of
dinner parties and cocktail gatherings, both formal and informal. They also arranged a
number of parties and social gatherings themselves. They managed a tourist trip to
Hangchow where GFA wanted to see the
famous Ling Yin Buddhist temple.
Shanghai The Ling Yin
Buddhist Temple
Hangchow
(Wade-Giles)
On their return, Sophie told her friends that, “after seeing the Hangchow bore I have
decided to keep the one I’ve got at home!”
The Hangchow Bore
The Grand
Movie Theatre
