... as I was watching the movie I suddenly sat up and to my surprise there was a picture of my folks, Will and Elsie Butcher, and myself walking in a lineup presumably on our way to the Camp. I made a screen shot and there we were in a picture I had never seen before. I would love to know who took it but nevertheless it was a delight to see it.
[excerpts] "The Enemy Within" by Father deJaegher:
... "and this was
the first fine opportunity they had had to make
affective anti-foreign propaganda. From my car
window I could see official Japanese photographers
hopping all over the Peiping station with their
cameras, taking still pictures; several more had set up
motion-picture cameras at different points and were
concentrating on footage of the Peiping foreign
residents carrying their own luggage. Everybody had
bags, boxes, and valises, whatever they could carry,
and some of the women were pushing small
wheelbarrows. The loading of the train was greatly
delayed in order that the photographers could get
thousands of feet of film of this parade of humiliation
to impress the Chinese citizens with Japanese power
and make the white foreigners "lose face." Chinese
amahs, separated from the children they had cared for
since babyhood, wept openly, and the children had to
be torn away from last embraces with their beloved
Chinese nurses by frantic parents.
All of us on the train saw this drama on the
station platform, and we watched the performance,
saddened and apprehensive, knowing that our turn
would come when we had to change trains. That
came sooner than we expected, for while there was
ample room for all on this prisoners' special, we were
ordered out of the cars, then packed into two trains to
Tientsin, and there we had to change trains
again. These changes were equally unnecessary, but
all this was done to impress the Chinese and annoy
and exasperate us.
When the Tientsin foreigners. joined us, the
Japs routed the train south to Tsinan, in Shantung
Province. Once again we changed trains for the
benefit mostly of the Japanese still and motionpicture cameramen, and chugged on for another full
day to Weihsien. ... etc.
Click on the ► to start the movie. ... or ... Go To "You Tube" and type: "Weihsien" ...
... more photos ...
liberation --- at last --- August 1945
liberation --- at last --- August 1945
... arrival at Tsingtao ...
... leaving Weihsien ... without regrets ...
Guard of Honour ---
The Guard of Honour which is supposed to be the "guard"
for internees from Peking going to the station to board the train.
... aboard a Man of War ...
British Army Band welcomes Internees at Tsingtao ---
This picture is of the British Army band welcoming internees in
Tsingtao. I believe they are near or on the train station.
... photo album ...
... "and this was
the first fine opportunity they had had to make
affective anti-foreign propaganda. From my car
window I could see official Japanese photographers
hopping all over the Peiping station with their
cameras, taking still pictures; several more had set up
motion-picture cameras at different points and were
concentrating on footage of the Peiping foreign
residents carrying their own luggage. Everybody had
bags, boxes, and valises, whatever they could carry,
and some of the women were pushing small
wheelbarrows. The loading of the train was greatly
delayed in order that the photographers could get
thousands of feet of film of this parade of humiliation
to impress the Chinese citizens with Japanese power
and make the white foreigners "lose face." Chinese
amahs, separated from the children they had cared for
since babyhood, wept openly, and the children had to
be torn away from last embraces with their beloved
Chinese nurses by frantic parents.
