Towards mid-July, a vague rumour started circulating that some of the camps were to be shifted to Japan as labour battalions. This was soon confirmed, when about a thousand of the fittest men were inoculated and rigorously inspected. They finally sailed about the 6th of August 1942 and, as we found out later, arrived safely in Japan and were sent to work at shipyards in the Tokyo area.
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