Priced at 10cents and printed just after the official surrender of the Japanese in SIngpore, this four-page newspaper's front page provided a detailed account of the official surrender of the Japanese led by General Itagaki, Commander of the Japanese Army, to the British led by Lord Louis Mountbatten at the Municipal Building. The other three pages also dealt with the surrender of the Japanese. This newspaper was part of the belongings of former prisoner of war (POW) Albert Riley. Albert Riley held the rank of Private in the 196 Field Ambulance unit (part of the Royal Army Medical Corps) and he arrived in Singapore on 29 January 1942 with his unit to help the wounded soldiers. With the fall of Singapore, Riley was held captive as a prisoner of war in Changi, and was sent to work on the Burma-Thailand Railway in 1943, but managed to survive the imprisonment and hardship to return to Changi. He eventually returned home to Britain after the surrender of the Japanese.
