Is the War Over or Not?.

The first real indication we had was a plane came over, an American plane, quite low and dropped some parachuted goodies, you know, right on to the parade ground. They came over a couple of times and there was everything; medicines, and food, and wine, plenty for the whole camp and that was the first real indication. Then the next time we were called out to the parade ground where they had the camp call and Colonel White of the Royal Scots, he was the senior officer in camp, and this time the officers had been brought back to Sham Shui Po and he called the camp commandant over and he said, “I want to know right now is the war over or not? ” and so he admitted, and the men were all dismissed, told the truth and the Japanese sentries disappeared from then on.