Another Jap Trick

[Lou Barron]

This happened when we was on the Tung Wo anchored in the Johore Straits the senior Jap said that we was to have a swimming race the prize a packet of ciggies he wanted as many of us to take part so there were a few of us me included little did we know what they intended to do
Anyhow he told to line up on the lower deck and we was swim to the row boat that another Jap was in the Jap who lined us up he gave the signal to go and as we dived into the water a couple of Japs on the upper deck emptiedto drums of human S******T into the water .It was not very nice and some of our guys got very mad and wanted to have a go at the Japs but it would have been suicidal

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates, As I posted before all you P.O.W. had a very bad time, all were treated like animals, by inhuman guards who did not care, Many suffer for years after the war , with all kinds of illness, nightmares and mental conditions with very little help or treatment by doctors in the U.K.

[john walker]

This happened when we was on the Tung Wo anchored in the Johore Straits the senior Jap said that we was to have a swimming race the prize a packet of ciggies he wanted as many of us to take part so there were a few of us me included little did we know what they intended to do
Anyhow he told to line up on the lower deck and we was swim to the row boat that another Jap was in the Jap who lined us up he gave the signal to go and as we dived into the water a couple of Japs on the upper deck emptiedto drums of human S******T into the water .It was not very nice and some of our guys got very mad and wanted to have a go at the Japs but it would have been suicidal

Hello Charles I allways find your stories of your time as a F.E.P.O.W. sad but enligtening. My Father was a F.E.P.O.W (He was R.N.) He managed to escape from Singapore but was eventually captured in Sumatra by the Japs. He became part of the British Sumatra Battalion who were shipped on the England Maru to Burma. I have been told they were the only British Troops to work on the Infamous railway from the Burmese end. He was eventually liberated in Saigon. At a F.E.P.O.W reunion in london many years ago I was talking to some of my fathers comrades who told me a story of retribution on the Saigon docks in January 1945. There had been a serious air raid attacking the Saigon airfield and the docks by allied bombers and fighters, there was a lot of damage done to the docks and to ships in the harbour fuel tanks were burning. Amid a lot of chaos and smoke P.O.W.s were ordered to go along the docks with the local equivalant of wheelbarrows to act as stretchers and collect the Japanese and Korean wounded and injured and to take them to emergency aid stations. Amid this chaos was a chance to play some catch up screened by the smoke a few of the Jap and Korean injured were delivered into the Harbour with the other s**t, oil and debris that was allready floating around, and never made the aid stations.