Escape

When we were taken prisoners of war, Sergeant John Payne and myself were quite good friends, and John had made a calendar, we put a hundred days on it, and he said that when a hundred days were up, he'd go over the fence, he'd try to escape. My intentions were fully to go with him, but while in North Point I took sick with dysentery and malaria at the same time and ended up at Bowan Road Hospital for seven weeks. In the meantime, John had started, one hundred days were up, he started contacting Chinese on the outside, and he had lined up three men to go with him, and in August of 1942 they made their escape. We were kept out on, when the escape was discovered we were kept out on the parade square, I'd returned to, to North Point camp in the meantime of course, and when the escape was discovered, we were lined up and for roll call, it was discovered four people were missing, and there was all hell to pray, to pay. We stayed out there all night, weren't allowed to go to the Benjo, which was the bathroom. Weren't allowed anything to eat or drink, or to sleep. The next day we were finally dismissed and, each day after that for a couple a days , we could see the guards all armed to the teeth and leaving camp, they were supposedly out searching for these four people who had escaped. Eventually of course we, when I heard after that they had been captured a couple of days after and they were executed and buried on the mainland.