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Twiss POW Transcripts
Admiral Sir Frank Twiss describing how his prisoner of war camp in Zentsuji obtained news
Transcript: "Unlike so many camps of prisoners of war we never ever had a radio set or anything like it. Our sole means of education was that the enlisted American men used to be taken down to the docks about ten or twelve miles away and worked in the docks there and they would be able to steal a Japanese newspaper and bring it back. We happened to have in the camp a Japanese interpreter who’d been studying in Japan – he was a Lieutenant in the Japanese navy – as a language student before the war and was caught up when the war started. So we were able to translate the Japanese newspapers and by careful watching of the news and setting one piece of news against another we got a reasonable idea of what was going on."
