All the internees are assembled and Yamashita reads out a list consisting of most of the men aged between 18 and 35: they are to sleep from now on in Stanley Prison as the Japanese believe there is a plan for a mass escape linked to the recently begun (October 25) American air raids. The system lasts about three weeks.
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George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 115-116
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