Sept 3 parade displays China's peace resolve By Guo Yi | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2025-08-27 07:13

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202508/27/WS68ae3f8da3108622abc9d4a8.html On Sept 27, 1942, Lisbon Maru, a cargo ship carrying more than 1,800 British prisoners of war, 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 Japanese guards on nearby ships. Some survivors who made it to the Chinese coast found salvation in an unexpected place: local fishermen who, despite their own hardship, risked everything to pull the strangers from the water and give them food and clothes.