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...pretty Chinese wife Paula slipped out of Shanghai the day (Dec. 21) that Jap police started rounding up U.S. and British "foreigners." A Chinese guide led them, by night, through narrow mountain passes to a farmhouse within earshot of a Jap garrison. Once, during their two-day hideout, they escaped a Jap searching party by a hair. A Chinese contraband runner loaded them at midnight into his small sampan, nosed upstream through sleet and snow for Free China. Japanese troops lined the right bank, Chinese the left; detection meant being riddled by both sides. At journey...
...bargain with the posse. They would not harm Gladys and Jerry if a car would be sent in for them, the doors open, to show that no police were hiding in it. The police refused. Shaky, but still keeping her nerve, Voncille led them to the fugitives' hideout-but after three of the convicts surrendered, and Gladys and Jerry were released, she collapsed with Gladys...
...controlled Chinese policemen known as the Ta Tao Boys (for the puppet Ta Tao Government), who are quick and careless at the trigger. Japanese assassins working for the Wang Ching -wei Peace and Reconstruction Movement use the Badlands for their base; and Puppet-elect Wang's own fortified hideout is within a dice-throw of the most notorious opium and gambling joint in the whole area. No day goes by without at least one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the adjacent International Settlement-so much so that no one is particularly surprised at advertisements...
...went briefly to Manila, then disappeared. Confucius really did say: "While one's parents are alive, one should not travel to a distance; if one must travel, it should be in a fixed direction." Dopesters guessed Prince David had fixed his direction for his father's mountain hideout at South Hot Spring, near Chungking...
...storied mutineers, heard nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak. Word of it was finally brought to Bounty Bay by the crew of a Tahitian tramp. That was before a best-selling trilogy and a four-star movie made Pitcairn Island the most publicized hideout on the seven seas, and prompted a well-meaning, sympathetic U. S. to enrich the 200-odd hybrid islanders with all sorts of civilized niceties, including a powerful amateur short-wave radio station, VR6AY...