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Description
The war ends with Mr. Routledge and his comrades at Canton prison. He explains how they guessed the war had ended, days before they were told.
Transcription
Before a few days that we were informed, we had gotten very accustomed to the, to distinguishing between the sound of a Japanese aircraft and an American aircraft, and we couldn't believe it when we heard so many what we thought anyway, and turned out to be correct, American aircraft flying over, but they were not dropping shells or doing any bombing at all, but they were coming over quite low. And we later learned on, or learned that the Americans had dropped a note or notes over, right over the prison, addressed to the commander, commandant of the prison instructing them to release us. But I'll never forget when we were taken before the camp commandant and we were told that, by him, that the, his Gracious Majesty, the Emperor of Japan, had graciously granted the Allies a truce and if the terms of the truce were successful, we may be released.
Interviewer: What did you think when you heard that? Did you believe it?
I think, in the matter in which it was said to us by the commandant, we, we believed it. We weren't altogether, you know, we weren't satisfied that there weren't some junior people, junior to him, might not try to get us before we were freed, but we did. We made it alright.