Being seen on the streets in those days was flirting with death, There were snipers in some of the houses during the early part of the trouble, fand the Japanese sentries at the bridges had orders to shoot on sight anyone abroad afler 6 pam. At night the weird flames of many fires added to the terror of the situation. Yet Foo and little Vong carried on with stoical tneoncern, eating and sleeping and pottering about their crumbling home, until Ainally the shadow of death lifted,
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