Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donald, trusted and powerful confidential adviser to Chinese leaders from Sun Yat-sen to Chiang Kaishek, turned up last week, safe & sound, in one of the Manila prison camps. He had been a prisoner since 1942, when the Japs caught him on his way back to China from New Zealand via the Philippines. Obviously, he had used a false name to fool his captors...
...Japs combed the prison camps to find and kill him. They failed partly because they had no idea that Donald was 69 years old. They were looking for a much younger man. If they had remembered to turn to LIFE'S issue of Oct. 25, 1937, they would have found a striking likeness of him with Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
...watch tower listening to the night's hush, tumbled to the earth. The crump of grenades mingled with ripping bursts from automatic weapons. Japs screamed orders, fell before the headlong rush of dimly seen figures brandishing knives and pistols. Unmistakably American voices yelled: "This is a prison break-make for the main gate! These are Yanks...
...Oakland, Calif., two days after she was notified by the War Department that her brother had been killed on Leyte, Mrs. Caryl L. Picotte wept again with happiness. Her husband had been rescued from the prison camp on Luzon...
Errand of Mercy. If the Japs were set to defend Manila like Plaridel, there was trouble ahead-and the greatest danger to thousands of Allied civilians interned in Manila's prison camps. The high command was ready for that...