Chapter 260 The Andaman Riot

In fact, as the commissioner of British India, for the incoming governor general, Sir Barron originally has no prejudice.

But he was the assistant to the commissioner, and the daughter of the governor-general had some unclear, unnamable and mysterious relationship, which inevitably made Sir Barron have a worry.

When General Mountbatten arrived, would he still be the authority in British India?

But fortunately, Alan Wilson’s expression of loyalty was still very effective, and directly stated that he was a man who knew how to repay his kindness, and would never forget that Sir Barron had helped him in the beginning of his career.

This answer made Sir Barron quite pleased, the young officer is still reliable, “In fact, for the current situation, Alan you know, we have to wait as long as possible until the deadline. But as you also know, General Mountbatten is a man with a rather spirited personality, and I’m afraid that he won’t cooperate with us after he arrives.”

What do you mean by foresight? This is called foresight! Alan Wilson is really admired, the history of General Mountbatten arrived in British India, a see the chaos has been overgrown, playing as early as possible to get out of the idea, directly come a hand of fast and furious.

Than the original Cabinet set the time, a full year early to let British India independent into India and Pakistan two countries, which even let the local Labor Party Cabinet and the Prime Minister were caught off guard.

It was almost as if the most important jewel of the British Empire had woken up without it! Even Prime Minister Adderley couldn’t accept it, let alone the ordinary citizens of the Empire.

General Mountbatten was the one who had been the commander of the Allied Forces in Southeast Asia, and although he had stayed in British Ceylon on vacation most of the time, the new governor was definitely no stranger to Sir Barron.

I am afraid that when the time comes, there will be differences in the work, for a British Indian civil service chief, and the Governor-General conflict is always unwise, but the interests are there, Sir Barron can not listen to it.

So after the Cabinet has stated three times that the Viceroy of British India will not be replaced, Sir Barron called his own assistant over to test the reliability of the young official who has taken a good look at him.

“I understand what Sir Baron means, Governor Mountbatten may have some wishful thinking, which requires someone to give good counsel at a time like this.” Alan Wilson said, weighing his vocabulary, “to maintain peace and stability in British India.”

“There is no mistaking that this man had better not be distantly related.” Sir Barron struck a high note, “The most suitable person for the job is you, and only your relationship with General Mountbatten is suited to having the Viceroy listen to professional advice, and sometimes opinion, at a time like that.”

“I will do everything in my power for the success of our proposition.” Alan Wilson intentionally emphasized the word we, indicating that he would definitely stick to his guns and protect the interests of public servants to the greatest extent possible.

“Alan’s statement will surely comfort many, many civil servants, in fact, everyone has always been very optimistic about you. Feeling that you are a model for young civil servants, an object for them to learn from.” Sir Barron couldn’t help but nod his head, “The order of the empire needs to be maintained by us, of course, it’s all mutual, if you’re able to maintain everyone, everyone will maintain you as well, and they’re willing to give you their support in some matters.”

General Mountbatten will eventually take office, Sir Barron also prepared for this, called Allen Wilson not just to knock, after getting a satisfactory answer, also expressed a positive response.

For example, in some matters can be more Allen Wilson valuable advice, while others give firm support.

Out of Sir Barron’s office, Allen Wilson refreshed, before the arrival of the new Governor, this conversation has shown that the Commissioner wants to give the Commissioner’s assistant to increase the burden of expectations.

Of course it also represents, the whole of British India’s civil service closely together, stand the last post of determination.

The most important thing is the support of Sir Barron, the position of assistant to the commissioner is, to be honest, it is very easy to be treated as a pose by the commissioner. Alan Wilson has been very fortunate not to have been subjected to this treatment yet.

Now Sir Barron had shown with this one conversation that he would never suffer such treatment for the rest of his life, but simply had to work with himself to defend the interests of the British Indian civil service as a whole.

Just then Edel, the Commissioner’s secretary, came hurrying in and came face to face with Alan Wilson, who had just come out of the Commissioner’s office, “What has happened?”

“Assistant, something happened in the Andaman Islands.” Ender opened his mouth anxiously, his feet did not stop walking to the door of the commissioner’s office, and pushed the door in.

Then Alan Wilson, who had just left, followed him in, already having a guess in his heart, he came in just to make sure.

“Commissioner, there is a riot of Japanese prisoners of war in the Andaman Islands. The British on the island have been evacuated, but with only two battalions of the Indian garrison up there and a lack of heavy weaponry, it’s not known if they can quell this riot.” Ender held out the telegram and hurriedly reported, “The current message, sent before the British expatriates were evacuated, we don’t know what the situation is yet.”

“Surprisingly, this kind of thing has happened?” Alan Wilson spoke with a grave expression, “I didn’t expect that on a small island that is isolated overseas and extremely easy to be blocked from news, Japanese POWs would dare to riot, do they have brains?”

The point is that it is isolated overseas, extremely easy to be blocked news on the island! Alan Wilson at this time to speak itself is very malicious, Sir Barron is not unheard, on the contrary he immediately clear Alan Wilson’s intention.

“Call General Erwin, let’s talk about the matter of the Andaman Islands.” Sir Barron made a decision on the spot, this kind of thing once appeared, absolutely rely on the garrison, can’t 100,000 civil servants 100,000 army, go to the island to quell the riot, right?

At this time in the Andaman Islands, is in the middle of a killing, once followed Yamashita Bongwen swept across Southeast Asia Japanese soldiers, after nearly a year, once again showed ferocity.

These Japanese prisoners of war are thin and weak, and their bodies have obviously consumed a lot of vitality in the midst of prolonged starvation, but everyone’s eyes are releasing a murderous aura, and they are venting out the abuse they have suffered on the island in a brainstorming manner.

The cause of the incident was the leakage of a telegram to cleanse the Japanese prisoners of war, which led to the occurrence of this riot.

The telegram was just a trigger, the authenticity of which need not be examined at all, it boiled down to the fact that for nearly a year, the endless heavy labor and meal deductions eventually wore down the mentally tough Japanese POWs.

As long as they were not sleeping, the Japanese POWs were constantly laboring to build military bases that were almost more than they needed to be used, and the deductions on meals were accumulated over the years, not to mention the fact that the British egged on the Indian soldiers and subjected the Japanese POWs to fancy abuses.

It finally resulted in this riot, while the instigator had fled on a warship, leaving the Indians on the island.

Over 20,000 Japanese POWs, though unarmed, outnumbered the Indian soldiers twenty to one, and once they decided to revolt, less than a thousand Indian soldiers, unprepared, were predictable.

There would have been more Japanese POWs arriving in the Andaman Islands, and already more than four thousand had died because of the local conditions, becoming part of the islands, with a great deal of credit going to the Indian soldiers. After the riots, the Indian garrison faced a predictable situation.

The British, who were all living on the largest harbor in the Andaman Islands where there were warships docked, got the news and immediately got on board and fled, leaving the Indian soldiers still on the island.

Now, all the consequences of the Indian soldiers to bear the Indian soldiers, from the beginning of the riot, there are a lot of single Indian soldiers directly killed, the Japanese prisoners of war with the looted weapons to complete the armament, continue to attack the Indian army, at the same time looking for everything that can be fruitful is food, the last two months, a lot of prisoners of war because of the lack of food starvation, a lot of riotous Japanese soldiers, all on the basis of a breath of air to fight against starvation.

Tens of thousands of Japanese troops, wrapped up in the exiled Japanese traitors on the island, swept through the Andaman.

The harsh environment of the jungles on the Andaman Islands was the same as that of Southeast Asia, and it would have been a tragedy for tens of thousands of men to plunge headlong into the almost uninhabited, wild-beast-infested, mosquito-infested mangrove forests with no roads and no possibility of obtaining sustenance.

And the Indian soldiers, who knew well what image they had in the eyes of the prisoners of war, did not fold their arms at this time, but remained on the island fighting the rioting prisoners, hoping that the island had been passed on and holding out until reinforcements arrived.

Two Japanese prisoners of war who were shooting at the gate towards the house were overturned on the ground at once, and even the light machine gun that had just been malfunctioned was also blown up, and finally temporarily suppressed the rioting Japanese prisoners of war.

At this time the defense of the Indian soldiers only climbed up, and saw a few prisoners of war from the gate rushed in, rifle at this time is not good enough, so he immediately from the waist pulled out the waist of the pistol, the moment he drew the gun is aimed at the incoming prisoners of war, threw his hand and shot a pike of bullets.

Twenty rounds of bullets swept out in a fan, three prisoners of war immediately sprayed blood screaming on the ground, the remaining two prisoners of war also scared to hurry down, not waiting for them to raise their guns to shoot, not far from the side of the two figures rushed out, holding a pistol ping ping ping ping on the fight.

But the soldier defended the house, is not able to carry the rioters impact, because of the defense and weapons, two brave Indian soldiers live more than fifteen minutes time, fifteen minutes later, a wisp of smoke rose up in the air, the hungry prisoners of war must eat something, eat anything ……

Life as a prisoner of war in the Andaman Islands makes the most intuitive feeling for these prisoners of war is hunger, they have to eat ……

Viceroy’s residence in New Delhi, General Erwin of the British Army in India has arrived, he and the Viceroy’s residence got the news at about the same time, and is now rushing over to discuss the strategy, and now the situation in the Andaman Islands is not understood by everyone.