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The Japanese were trying to keep the road open to enable stragglers from all over Burma to escape Siam.

A prisoner was taken and brought back to H.Q Company. I was the Sergeant in charge of the intelligence and had two Burmese Intelligence Corps attached, one of which spoke Japanese. I asked him to ask the prisoners if they had any money (spoils of war) and to my surprise one of the Japanese looked at me and said in perfect English ‘No, I haven’t got any money, but I had a watch which the soldiers who took me prisoner took from me. But I don’t know his name’. The prisoner had been a journalist in Kobi before the war.

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