CHINESE HEROINE
A visitor who attracted much attention in London recently was Mrs. Elizabeth Su Moi (“Peerless Blossom’’) Choy, from Singapore. It was not an idle holiday for this Chinese girl. She went daily—usually in bottle-green slacks.—to the North London Polytechnic for domestic science lessons. Mrs. Choy has never been a timewaster. When the Japs occupied Singapore she busied herself smuggling food into Changi prison camp. She was caught, tortured, threatened with execution. For once she did nothing, said nothing. She wore her captors down, was alive when they surrendered. A former Girl Guide, Peerless Blossom went with her conational, Dorothy Lee, whose story is much the same, to receive from Lady Baden-Powell the Bronze Cross, the Guide’s highest award for courage and fortitude.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 10 March 1947, Page 7
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