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We were sent up to Pagoda Pass and up there we were doing tunnelling into the hills and that was for the Japanese to have all their storage of rice and that for the troops up in Burma. There was another incident I could have been involved in. With us was a couple of Western Australian chappies, who were miners. We went out this morning to go into the mine and they said "We're not going into it."
The Japanese sergeant starts. They said, "We're not going in." He said, "It's talking." Of course, we thought they were off their la la. We never knew anything about timbers talking or anything like, from our experiences. They said, "No." Said, "It's going to collapse."
Then in the finish the sergeant, Jap thought he'd be a big, brave man. So he walked in, he no sooner got to the end of it, and, bang, it went. Caved in. And he never came out. So the two blokes, Western Australians, sat down and ate his rice and bamboo shoots.
