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Chu Leong set up business in Marienberg on the Sepik River in 1930. His eldest son was killed by American aircraft fire on the ill-fated refugee ship, Dorish Maru in 1944. His daughters and other sons suffered Japanese occupation in a village on the Keram River... Anna ran her father's trade store, mixed with officers on an idyllic colonial outpost and saw independence in Wewak in 1975. She survived the threats and gunfire of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army in 1989...