Chapter 38- The road to Shanghai

Jim rode with Tulloch and Lieutenant Price on the Shanghai road while searching for canisters of supplies. They were leaving Lunghua and Jim realised that he had once again been imprisoned by the camp. Jim searched for the young Kamikaze pilot as they swerved along the mud track to the stadium. Price and Tulloch left Jim and went towards the stadium in search of things to take whilst drunk. Jim stayed near the truck and thought about Mr Maxted. He then read Reader's Digest as a few Mustang fighters flew overhead ready to drop more supplies. He then saw armed men scattering from the tunnel of the stadium in panic with Nationalist Soliders following. The soldiers fired and soon Tulloch lay in the white dust near the entrance. Lieutenant Price leapt over the perimeter wall and into the flooded paddy field. Jim went towards the Opel and decided that it was too dangerous to drive it to Shanghai so he would walk. He was about to get some supplies from inside when he seized by the soldiers and then punched to the ground. With a bloody nose he pleaded with the chinese coolie holding a stave that he was a British Prisoner from Lunghua. Basie then came over and looked at the supplies and as Jim recognised him he told Basie about the new words he had learnt from the magazines he had been reading and keeping for Basie