September 3 parade displays China’s peace resolve
ON September 27, 1942, Lisbon Maru, a cargo ship carrying more than 1,800 British prisoners of war (POWS), mostly soldiers from Britain’s Hong Kong garrison to Japan, was torpedoed by a US submarine. The Americans didn’t know the vessel was carrying POWs. Those POWs who managed to break through the hatches faced machine-gun fire from […]
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