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Mr. Hurd describes hearing about the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, and senses that the war is over. His officer challenges the Japanese commandant about his authority, and the Japanese soon all disappear.
Transcription
It kept coming in that peace was about to be, to take place, we were relieved to think of it. And finally, we heard about the atomic bomb and I remember our doctor, Martin Bangille (sp) says, of course, I didn’t know about splitting the atom or… “They’ve done that now. Whoever’s done that will be dictator of the world, now who’s got the atomic bomb.” That was his remarks. Of course, he was quite a scientist anyway and he knew what it meant. And finally, the last parade we had, this is in the officer’s camp, the Japanese came into count and Colonel White said, “There will be no counting today, the war is over!” And through the interpreter, of course, the Japanese commandant said well, he hadn’t read his paper yet. “Here’s Hong Kong news. You take your guards off!” That’s the last we saw of them, the Japanese.