The fall of Singapore, which was said to be the biggest tragedy in the history of the British Empire.Behind the successful operation of the Japanese army at a tremendous speed of lightning stone fire, there was a perfect intelligence activity that the UK was astonished.
The fall of Singapore, which was said to be the biggest tragedy in the history of the British Empire.Behind the successful operation of the Japanese army at a tremendous speed like lightning stone fire, there was a perfect intelligence activity that the UK was astonished.* This article is partially excerpted and edited by Nobu Okabe's "World War II, IP History" (PHP Shinsho).
Winston Churchill is a prime minister who is respected in the UK as "the greatest person in history."Churchill continued to remorse for a lifetime was the fall of Singapore, which was called "Oriental Gibraltar" and was claimed to be an impregnable fortress.Early, on December 8, 1941, more than an hour before the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the Japanese army, who landed on Kotabal, the northern end of the Malay Peninsula, reached the city's southern tip of the peninsula in just 55 days.In just 70 days after the war, Singapore fell.It is a Murray (Morisou) operation.Why was the Murray operation of the United Kingdom, which beat the United Kingdom completely?A secret document that Britain explored the cause is in the British Office Library.This is a file entitled "Malay's Intelligence Activities in Malay" (KV3 / 426).The files were created from November 1940 to March 1955 after the war by the DSO Singapore branch, an intelligence organization established in Singapore, immediately after the outbreak of World War II in Europe.It contains 56 kinds of secret documents.First of all, I would like to introduce from the summary (summary) created by the British Office.It contains various evidence of intelligence activities in the Malay operation of the Japanese army that caused the fall of Singapore.The British territory Malay, especially in the Singapore fortress, had perfect intelligence (by Japan).Conducted by Consul General Singapore (Consul -General Tsurumi, who served just before the war), DSO, who sensed it, warned that he would urgently close (retreat).However, the warning was ignored by political convenience.It is very regrettable that ordinary officers and citizens publicly talked about important secrets.This is because the "fifth row" organization by many Malay and Japanese people, including "KAME", was working secretly.In a narrow sense, the fifth row refers to an organized group of invasions in response to the invading army, but rather a spy or (enemy) collaborator.The United Kingdom was amazed that the Japanese had taken stocks in the intelligence power, British, and infiltrated internal information to expose internal information in their own country.