THERE were rumours afloat that the Japs were fighting in Malaya, Sarawak, not to speak of the other far off places. Soon we heard they were in Miri, the 2nd largest city in Sarawak. On the 1st of Jan 1942, we heard that they were already in Labuan, an island off the west coast, a few miles away from Weston some eighteen miles from Beaufort, the railways terminus on the West Coast.
What a quick advance. It seemed to be an advance far quicker than the Germans blitzkrieg in Europe. Soon we heard they were on their way to our place and they were asking the local authorities, the British, for their railway train to be sent to Weston, the railhead for the Japanese troops to get in.
