Word: kawahito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dirty job of bargaining with Chinese bandits for the lives of British Mrs. Kenneth Pawley and Mr. Charles Corkran, who calls her "Tinko," fell last week to Captain Kawahito of the Japanese Gendarmery...
Taking along a load of opium, a load of Japanese yen and a load of warm winter clothing, Captain Kawahito set off in command of a platoon, floundered through awful mud to the bandits' lair-all because His Britannic Majesty's Government refuses to be trifled with...
Squaring his jaw, Captain Kawahito first threatened, then conjured up the joys of smoking opium in warm winter clothes stuffed with Japanese yen. Probably it was the 250 Ib. of opium that turned the trick, though Captain Kawahito also paid over 130,000 yen ($30,000) and strewed winter clothing right & left. Finally the Captain received custody of the two sick, bedraggled, utterly filthy whites. "They thought I was going to die," gasped Mrs. Pawley. "That was one of the reasons why they...
Japanese residents rewarded Captain Kawahito with a party. Money for the ransom, they said, came not from the Japanese Government but from the Seigidan, local Japanese patriotic society...