When Japan occupied the southern Pacific during World War Ⅱ, the overseas Chinese there organized a war of resistance against the Japanese. This resistance was split into right and left wings, and he was in the latter.
原來日本在二次大戰後期佔領南洋後，華僑子弟也組織了地下抗日活動，又分左派和右派，而他參加的正是左派組織。