I have actually been to Penang a very neat island where, in WWI, the dashing von Muller on Emden entered the port and destroyed a small Russian cruiser and a French torpedo boat.
He commandeered a local transport for a hospital ship for the injured enemy seamen.
Different time!!!
In WWII Japanese atrocities abounded. The army commander would line people up and see how many he could behead with one whack of his Samari sword
Today it is a high tech pocket (Intel has a plant there) and mostly Chinese decedents making it less like the Muslim mainland of Malaysia.
My cousin was a missionary (forbidden!!) private school teacher so I was his only family to ever visit him there.
I was doing a story on the Eastern Oriental Express train and was on my way to the Bridge on the River Kwai and then Burma.
Wulfmann
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