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The Reverend Dr Norman Cliff, DPhil, BA, BCom, FSCA.
A CHURCH MINISTER ACCOUNTS FOR HALF A CENTURY
This year my mind goes back fifty years to a 1,600 strong Japanese civilian camp ...
Guests of His Imperial Majesty
LAST weekend, at a hotel in Weybridge, 360 people gathered - some from as far as Canada , New Zealand , Australia , the United States and South Africa - for a reunion which united many of them for the first time in 43 years.
The ties which brought them together go back to pre-war China, where they formed part of a far-flung European community of doctors, missionaries, teachers, administrators and traders, whose centre was Shanghai, the "Paris of the East" and, by 1939, the world's fifth largest city.
This colourful era came to an end in the early hours of Monday December 8, 1941, when the Japanese army ...
Mary Previte holds part of a yellow silk parachute that a camp survivor had embroidered with the signatures of the rescuers.
She tracked down WWII liberators to say thanks
Mary Previte trembled as she dialed the number. With luck, the man at the other end would be the one who engineered her rescue from ...
