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Description
Mr. Devouge discusses his inadequate rations, and goes on to describe two situations where Japanese civilians risked giving him food.
Transcription
Oh I weighed when I went in 160, when I come out I weighed 101pounds. We was getting what you’d put in a tea cup a day - each meal, three meals, three cups a day. And you had no tea, you had no salt, you had nothing and that was boiled dry.
Interviewer: This was rice that you are talking about?
Yes, and that's all we had. When we had no rice, they had barley. It was no good. And the women used to haul coal and they'd bring me beans and all that and hide it. They'd say, "Take care the Japs don't catch you, they'll slap your face." And they brought me something everyday, I used to unload their loads for them. That helped me. Then I got hauling lumber, an old fellow, a Jap, and he had an old ox there. "Get on!" he says, and we'd sit on and we'd go, make a load and every morning he brought me a big apple, he was a farmer. That was a big help and he was a nice old fellow. And when I left I give him a pile of cigarettes.