Singapore 1941-1942 by Allen Louis

Author:Allen Louis [Louis, Allen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, General, Political Science, Security (National & International)
ISBN: 9781135194253
Google: EdL9AQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05T01:20:43+00:00

I believe I added, and I know I thought, that even if the Japanese were annoyed when we met them at our not having ceased fire, this would be nothing in comparison with the risk of total disaster which we ran if our men disarmed themselves before the terms of the truce or the capitulation were decided. Again my remarks were received in total silence.

This was only broken when Gen. Percival (I think it was) said ‘We ought to go’, and he and the two Brigadiers walked out of the room and down to the two cars which were awaiting us. I had no choice but to follow them.75

Wild’s anger and mortification are betrayed in the paragraph which follows:

Astonishing though this may sound, it was not altogether so to me, as I had become inured during the past week to seeing Gen. Percival’s painful inability to give a decision, and on three occasions to make any reply whatever, when points of operational importance were referred to him, particularly by my Corps Commander [Heath].

The delegation went to the Ford Factory, up the Bukit Timah Road. Percival was never given a copy of the surrender terms, he says in his book, and the record of the brief exchange between him and Yamashita is given in the first volume of the Japanese Official History, from the records of Lieutenant-Colonel Sugita, an English-speaking staff officer from 25 Army HQ. When Yamashita took his seat opposite Percival, he asked:

Have you seen our terms, which were handed over to the peace envoy?

Percival: Yes.

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