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FIVE Strange Death 8
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POCKY CHENG WAS finally set free by the Japs after leading them to all the village sandalworkshops, each of which they blew up. ‘Are there any more?’ Chestnut1 Wool Cap asked sternly.
‘No,’ he asserted, ‘honest, there aren’t.’
Chestnut Wool Cap looked over at the Japanese, who nodded. ‘Get the hell out of here!’ hesaid, Cheng backed up a dozen or so steps, bowing and scraping, then nodding over and over, ashe spun2 around to get out of there as fast as his legs would carry him. But they were so rubbery,and his heart was pounding so hard, that he froze on the spot. The bayonet wound in his chestthrobbed, and the mess in his crotch had turned sticky and cold. As he leaned against a tree tocatch his breath, he heard ghostly sobs3 and screams from the houses around him. His legsbuckled as he slid to the ground, his back scraping the dry, brittle4 bark of the tree. Clouds ofsmoke filled the sky above the village, the residue5 of exploding hand grenades, I suppose.
After lobbing hundreds of black muskmelon grenades through overhead windows and doors,the Japanese encircled the sandal workshops while muted explosions tore them apart, making theground tremble as thick smoke rose from the windows, accompanied by the pitiful screams ofthose who had survived the blasts. The Japanese soldiers then stuffed straw into the windows,muting the shrieks6 inside until you had to strain to hear them. With Pocky Cheng as their guide,the Japanese blew up twelve workshops. He knew that three-fourths of the village men madestraw sandals and slept in those workshops, so there was little chance any of them could havesurvived. The enormity of his crime hit him suddenly. Without his lead, the Japanese wouldnever have found the workshop in the remote corner of the eastern section of the village; it wasone of the biggest, employing twenty or thirty men, who spent their nights there weaving sandalsand joking with one another. The Japanese lobbed over forty grenades into that workshop alone,blasting the roof off the building, which, following the last explosion, became a flattenedgraveyard. A single
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