YAMASHITA WAS SURPRISED
EASY FALL OF SINGAPORE (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) MANILA, Dec. 3. Yamashita did not expect Singapore to surrender so soon. He told a Mutual broadcasting correspondent that “it was by sheer luck that our entire forces were not annihilated in attempting to cross the Johore Straits. The British guns could have annihilated us. I expected them to wipe us out to the last man.” Yamashita added that his table pounding and fist waving at the surrender parley arose through efforts to make the interpreter understand what he was trying to tell General A. E. Percival.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 46, 4 December 1945, Page 3
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