The Kempeitai come to search the Americans' luggage - 'and it was a particularly feverish time for those of us who had concealed anything'. The luggage is placed in the roadway for inspection. Some bags are chalk marked to show they've been inspected but then left unlocked; the owners add any forbidden papers they haven't yet destroyed.
It was a queer last night. We sat on the steps of the house in the moonlight, listening to the beat of the surf which was so near, yet so unreachable, and sang songs of home.
Source:
Gwen Dew, Prisoner of the Japs, 1943, 149-50
Book / Document
Date(s) of events described