Bill Taylor's Memoir: My Unusual Voyage
Aboard the Empress of Asia and the Aftermath

W.T. "Bill" Taylor (1924-2001)

As I have written this small biography of my experiences 60 years after it started happening, I feel I have written it as if I was eighteen years old again and the few of the many events that happened and mentioned here, are really treated very lightly, because my memory took me back to that age again when everything happened.

Everything written here is the truth and actually happened. Had I have been older, I would certainly have found my experiences much more serious as, age has made me more conservative in my feelings now, and I know when I write of the risks I took to survive, I guess I did not suffer from nerves in those days.