Anyone capable of affording passage on a passenger liner is generally intelligent enough to understand the situation. Can one really trust the words of men brandishing heavy machine guns and bayonets?
Hundreds of people stood huddled on the deck, heads bowed in silence.
"General, I don't think they believe you. I told you to wear decent clothes before we left, but you wouldn't listen!" a short, bow-legged man said, emerging from behind the middle-aged Japanese commander.
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