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OCR: 12 Jan 42 Petaling. Kuala Lumpur, Malaya) We left Petaling for Singapore Quink yesterday. Our stop for the night was Malacca and on our way there nothing much happened. We passed rubber plantations and saw our soldiers camped there. They waved to us, made the victory sign and were very cheerful. ... After tiffin See Link [lunch/ we rested in our room when Pre-war Singapore suddenly I heard tramp, tramp, tramp of marching feet! Rushed to the window. 19 Jan 42 (Rex Hotel, Singapore) looked out onto the narrow street. What We reached the shelter just in time as the I saw made me feel cold, for below in the first bomb was dropped. We flung ourselves street, the Punjabs, guns and vicious looking flat on the floor and whizz-shiss-ss-ss, knives, were marching four abreast_it crr-crr-rump, crash came the bombs one looked as if they were preparing for a after another. I heard the whisting of each land fight. of them as they hurtled down from the sky 5 6