Setting out from Southampton on 8th January on HMT NEURALIA, Short writes of his voyage to Gibraltar, Malta and Alexandria, and the return voyage. The third letter in this bundle encloses 3 photographs of scenes from Ashar Creek, but there is no reference to them in the letter, and the envelope has a different date to the letter, so it is unclear when the photographs were taken. Short observes Alexandrian divers dredging for coal which has fallen from the large ships in the harbour. In February he sets out again from Southampton, this time to Port Sudan. On the 23rd February he encloses 4 photographs of men in bathing suits, sunbathing (presumably Short and his friends/ shipmates). Again there is no mention of these photographs in the letter. By March he has reached Colombo, and is in Shanghai by the 28th, and sets sail for home on the 29th. Shorts writes about seeing gruesome evidence of fighting between Japanese and Chinese forces while ashore during March, an example of hostilities which eventually led to the Second Sino-Japanese War.