Complex sentence: Jim slips away from the group at a football stadium near Nantao--filled with luxuries confiscated by the Japanese--and wanders back to Suzhou Creek, hearing news of Japan's surrender and the end of the war.
Split into simpler sentences: Jim slips away from the group at a football stadium near Nantao--filled with luxuries confiscated by the Japanese--and wanders back to Suzhou Creek. Along the way he hears news of Japan's surrender and the end of the war.