Up at Shamshuipo the POWs are woken at 6.30 by a bugler blowing the 'fall in' at the double. They stumble out of bed and into their clothes and make their way to the parade square. They find that the Japanese are changing the Camp Commandant. It will now be Lieutenant Wada, former head of North Point POW Camp, just returned from three months in Japan.
Opinions of Wada will differ, but most accounts suggest he brought as much humanity to Shamshuipo as he could. It's certain that the death rate wil never be as high as in the dreadful year of 1942.
Source:
Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, Friday 8 January 1942