What is "tsao"

Usage examples of "tsao".

It will be more necessary than ever to regain contact with that Tsao chap in Singapore.

This Richard Tsao is trustworthy, according to our Intelligence sources, but only up to a point.

Richard Tsao unbolted the steel door and stood aside to allow the two officers to stumble out into the sunshine.

Ross looked at Tsao, and wondered if he had noticed this first small gesture of welcome, or trust.

In the cabin, Tsao produced a bottle of sake, a gift, he explained, from a previous encounter with a Japanese patrol-vessel.

Later, after yet another meal of rice and fish and a second bottle of sake, Tsao raised the curtain a little more on what lay ahead.

The next morning, after a quick meal, they changed into their borrowed clothing while Tsao collected all their personal belongings, identity cards and discs, anything that might betray them.

Richard Tsao had already informed them that every German in Singapore was required to wear it as a recognition symbol wh.

Ross saw the soldier peering through the open window, his dark eyes flitting from the official passes on the windscreen to the one Tsao was holding out to him.

Where an employee had once lived, perhaps the manager whom Richard Tsao had replaced.

While they had been lying at Penang, surrounded by the enemy, and had watched the submarines at their moorings, Tsao had come and gone with the cool confidence of a professional agent, not the junior clerk Villiers had once known.

I thought it was some extraordinary coincidence - and but for your meeting with that Tsao chap and getting that priceless information from him, the whole thing might have gone down the drain.

He did not even mention Richard Tsao by name, and Ross wondered what the others might think if they had heard his rare disclosure, which on recollection Pryce himself would regard as a weakness.

What if Richard Tsao had been betrayed, and was even at this moment gasping out his life under torture?

Perhaps Tsao was right, and the Japanese were too confident about their overall domination, and the power of the fear they used like an additional weapon.