Description
Dr. Cunningham describes using a hidden radio and smuggled Chinese newspapers to keep informed about the war's progress.
Transcript
The first year or so the men had a radio set. I don't know how they came by it but they would dismember it periodically if word came about that there was going to be a camp inspection. We did get some news, radio news, this was the first maybe couple of years. There was a battalion of Hong Kong volunteers that were in the camp too, these were Portuguese and Chinese. When they went out on the working parties there would be other Hong Kong people working there too and which were known to some of the Hong Kong volunteers but anyway they would get newspapers from them some way or other and they could interpret the Chinese newspaper and so we got some more news that the Japanese hardly ever lost a war ship. They might have had some paint scratched or something like that but it was far from the truth but we knew that since the American Navy was getting closer and closer to the main land and the Philippines that they must be winning.