Hus Hung Factory : Japanese checked all the records and record player

It was early during the Japanese Occupation when the Japanese soldiers started to search homes for evidence of anti Japanese elements.

After the chief mechanic was killed by the machine gun of the Japanese boats, the staff and the family members of the employees were terrified by any approaching motor boats, especially from across the river.

One day suddenly many soldiers came to the factory and started looking for evidence. They were rough and soon they found my father's record player and many classical music records. They also found lots of English books.

Since they belonged to my father, he was immediately arrested.

My great grandfather and grandfather were distraught. My father was beaten up  several times and not allowed to eat. But he would not confess that he was a British spy.

It was quite a popular fashion for three generations of grandfather, father and son to take a studio photo together. This was before my father went to China to further his education.

My grandfather went around asking for help and he found Mr. Lu was was able to write Japanese. Mr. Lu wrote a very good petition letter on my grandfather's behalf, and he too vouched for my father's good behaviour.

My father was worried that the Japanese might find out that he had studied in Beijing. Luckily there was no graduation photo of my father in any of the rooms in the house or office.

After a traumatic ten day period the Japanese reluctantly relased my father.

My great grandfather and my grandfather were immediately at the Kempetai office to receive my father who was then quite weak from the 10 day remand. The three of them embraced each other and cried, thanking God for the mercies shown. My aunts all said that it was a grand day for the family in Hua Hong Factory.

They were so relieved that Big Brother was spared. A year later, in 1943 my great grandfather passed away. He never saw the end of the Japanese Occupation.