| AdminHistory | Vincent Brice Carew Baker was General Manager of the Pahang Consolidated Tin Mine (at the time the largest tin mine in the world) from 1929(?) to 1941.
Vincent Baker was the tuan besar, "great master", Nona Baker was "Missie."
In 1941 the Japanese swept down the Malay Peninsula; and the brother and sister took refuge in the jungle where, for eighteen months, they lived from hand to mouth. Exhausted, ill and near starvation, they learnt that they were to be betrayed to the enemy, and in their extremity, they turned to the Chinese Communist guerillas, who received them with great kindness.
In 1944 the Japanese staged an all-out offensive against the guerilla camps and the Bakers once again had to hide in the jungle. Vincent Baker died; Nona Baker survived. She rejoined the guerillas and lived and worked with them until the British returned to Malaya.
Nona Baker wrote a book on her experiences during this time entitled "Pai Naa".
Text from: M Robert Freeth
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