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...Butterfly Wu now turned up safe & sound in Shiukwang, with Husband Penn, 20 relatives and friends, and a Wulu of an explanation. She had escaped Hong Kong, she said, by disguising herself and Penn as untouchable dirty beggars, and then leading eight children pitifully past the sentries. The Japs failed to examine her husband's baggage, she said; it held the family jewels, her gowns and theatrical makeup. (How the relatives got out was unexplained.) At the time she was reported dead, said Butterfly, she was actually head of a Hong Kong "Women's Club...
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