title: Bloody Shambles, Vol. 2: From the Defence of Sumatra to the fall of Burma
author: Christopher Shores
description: Christopher Shores began by writing the occasional book about military aviation, then quickened the pace as he grew older. By now, readers and reviewers are hard-pressed to keep up with him. Meanwhile, he pursued a career as a land surveyor and director of one of Europe's largest firms of property advisers.
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  # The Terror Of The Sea Caves
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Charles G.D. Roberts
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
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  ### I.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  IT was in Singapore chat big Jan Laurvik, the diver, heard about the
  
  
  lost pearls.
  
  
    
  As he was passing the head of a mean-looking alley near the
  
  
  waterside, late one sweltering afternoon, he was halted by a sudden
  
  
  uproar of cries and curses. The noise came from a courtyard about
  
  
  twenty paces up the alley. It was a fight evidently, and Jan's blood
  
  
  responded with a sympathetic thrill. But the curses which he caught
  
  
  were all in Malay or Chinese, and he curbed his natural desire to rush
  
  
  in and help somebody. Though he knew both languages very well, he knew
  
  
  that he did not know, and never could know, the people who spoke those
  
  
  languages. Interference on the part of a stranger might be resented by
  
  
  both parties 