How and When the British surrendered.... (15 Feb 1942)

The British surrendered On 15 February 1942...

How did the British surrendered?

The British delegation was ordered to be at Ford Factory in Bukit Timah, to meet Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki Yamashita, head of the invading Japanese forces.The British delegation arrived at the Ford Factory building after 4:00 pm, led by Percival, together with Brigadier K. S. Torrance, Brigadier T. K. Newbigging carrying the Union Jack flag, and Captain Cyril Wild carrying the white surrender flag, and Lieutenant-Colonel Sugita. The meeting took place in the boardroom where Yamashita demanded from the British,an unconditional surrender of Singapore, to take effect from 8:30 pm that day. The British, with Cyril Wild as interpreter, was under heavy-pressure from Yamashita. The British broke down during negotiation. Percival on behalf of the British capitulated and signed the Singapore Surrender Document.


British Surrendered Singapore

Author
Vernon Cornelius-Takahama, 2001

 

The surrendered document

 

 How did the surrendered of the British affect my life in Singapore?

 

Life's were not the same after Japanese took over Singapore... Everything changes over the time and life were tough for people and people were treated cruelly because of the minor mistake they make....

 

 

http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_525_2005-01-25.html  ( 14 Feb 2013)

 

 

 

 

 

Operation Clean Up (Sook Ching)

During the early days of the Japanese occupation, an extensive clean-up operation to purge anti-Japanese elements -- including former members of Dalforce, Force 136, and supporters of the China Relief Fund -- known as Sook Ching was undertaken. The massacres were executed under the supervision of the Kempeitai with the Hojo Kempei being employed to carry out the actual shooting under order of a Kempeitai officer. Although the exact figures will never be fully known, it was estimated that a total figure between 25,000 and 50,000 victims were massacred according to the post-war trial testimonies in 1947.^[9]
Masanobu Tsuji was identified by Japanese army commanders as the man responsible for the Sook Ching massacre during the Singapore Chinese Massacre Trial in 1947.^[10] Tsuji was appointed as the Chief Planning and Operations Officer of the 25th Army, which was led by Tomoyuki Yamashita during the Malayan Campaign. He had close links with the Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo and enjoyed certain privileges that officers of more senior ranks were not allowed.^[10]
Overstepping his authority, he had issued orders during the massacre of thousands of Chinese civilians in Singapore and Malaya with Yamashita's knowledge but without his approval. He was also responsible for the slaughter of thousands of American and Filipino prisoners-of-war in the Philippines.^[11] Tsuji was in Myanmar at the time of Japan's unconditional surrender to British forces in August 1946 and made his getaway to Thailand disguised as a wandering Buddhist monk. He later spent a short spell in China during its the Chinese Civil War. He was pursued by the British but they were unable to get him, as he was sheltered by the United States for political reasons when he resurfaced in Japan in 1947.^[11] He was cleared of any war crimes in 1950 and later became one of Japan's most prominent post-war parliamentarians.^[11] In 1961, Tsuji disappeared mysteriously in Indochina and was officially declared dead in 1968.^[12


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempeitai_East_District_Branch (14 Feb 2013)

World War I (1914)

World War I started in 1914. With a few European countries at loggerheads initially, the war soon spread to the other parts of the world. It was estimated that some thirty countries were involved in the war. Effects of the war proved destructive. About 8.5 million people were killed and another 21 million wounded. How did the war affect Singapore? Singapore was not very much affected during the war. This was because it was far away from Europe and the countries around it were either friendly to Britain or neutral to either sides in the war. There was only a temporary inflation of food prices as people rushed to buy food for storage. The problem was solved when the government forbade huge export of foodstuff from Singapore. The government also imported rice from Siam and Vietnam. Effects of the war only emerged when two major incidents happened…… How did Singapore help the British? At the Singapore government’s appeal, Tan Jiak Kim donated $18 000 to the British war funds. He also joined a committee to help raise war funds. Some rich Straits Chinese in Singapore contributed money to buy fighter planes to help Britain. Among them was Tan Jiak Kim, who donated a fighter plane, Malaya No. 21. Other donors included the Chinese merchants and Straits Chinese ladies. Altogether, Singapore and Malaya donated 53 warplanes to Britain. When World War I ended?   World War I ended on 11 November 1918. The war, which started in 1914, lasted 5 years.The end of the war marked the start of a new period of peace and prosperity.  Scene of World War I Flight plane at that time   World War I gun How did World War One affect my life in Singapore after that? People live peacefully and prosperously after that... And we could hear the laughter of people almost every day after the war... http://library.thinkquest.org/12405/world.htm ( 14 Feb 2013)