Worse even than lack of stores and firepower was the lack of communication with the outside world, and in April, Seagrim, who had served once as a signals officer, set out to obtain a wireless set from forces in a town far to the north, only to discover when he got there that the ...
that their lives and mine had been spared and that he had brought us to safety. They both had suffered like myself, as bothHad to find their way also to Calcutta, by the Chittagong Coast. From Calcutta, after a stay of a few days where my sons bought me clothes etc., I went on ...