Word: changi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Fort Changi, Singapore, now an internment camp for British Imperials, a wide-eyed Domei correspondent wrote last week...
...seaward side is protected by the strongly fortified islands of Brani, Blakang Mati, East St. John. Heavy and light guns perch atop the island's 1,000 hills. Location of the biggest guns of all, the 18-inchers, is a secret, but they are probably at the Changi entrance to Johore Strait. Around the entire island on all the beaches there are barbed-wire entanglements with concrete pillboxes at intervals...