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Description
Mr. Routledge later took on a new and life-threatening duty of moving messages from the camp to contacts outside Sham Shui Po... and back again. He eventually is discovered by his Japanese captors. The consequences are terrifying.
Transcription
On the 1st of July, 1943, the Red Cross appeared in Shamshuipo and the Japanese were going to show the Red Cross how well we were being treated and so on, so they ordered us to go down and play soccer on the field in front of the Shamshuipo barracks, great, huge field, and I was walking from my billets down to the field when I passed by the ration depot and all of a sudden I looked over and there were about three or four Japanese and one Chinese chap standing there and when I looked over, the Chinese chap pointed at me and the three or four Japanese chaps rushed over behind me with fixed bayonets and told me to go over to the depot where I would be told something. When I got over there, they, they didn't really tell me anything except that they handcuffed me and put me in the back and on the, gave me a little slapping around and a few little points with the bayonet and I was taken from there down to Jund (sp) Armoury Headquarters for questioning. But all this was a result of the truck driver telling them that it was I who was receiving and sending messages to the outside.