REOCCUPATION OF SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]

Following the Japanese surrender, Indian troops of 5th Indian Division return to Singapore by sea, and the Japanese garrison decamp to concentration areas in Johore.

Panning shot over Singapore. Bomb damage at the docks. A troopship approaching the quay. A six-man Chinese film crew with a camera on tripod filming the arrival of British forces. Close-up camera team armband: ‘China Motion Picture Studio’. Filming a troopship berthing. Troopship dropping anchor. Indian troops disembarking. Feet coming down gangway. More soldiers disembarking. A colour party marches with a Union flag (and a flag of the 1st Punjab Regiment) to Government House. Shot of Government House. Colour party marching through gates towards camera. A crowd of ex-prisoners of war cheering; some of them waves hoes in the air and one man dances. More scenes of jubilation. A party of Japanese troops marching out of Singapore towards Johore. More Japanese on the march, some with handcarts or bicycles. Japanese troops pushing bicycles pass a lorry with British and Indian troops watching them go. More Japanese pass pushing bicycles. Japanese troops and transport crossing the Johore causeway. Civilians watch Japanese troops pass. A lorry laden with baggage struggles along, its right rear tyre shredded. Group of Japanese soldiers. Looking up at a group of Japanese soldiers (sitting on a lorry?). Pan of a road, with a Japanese soldier waving people out of the way of an approaching van, some (Japanese auxiliaries?) appear to be carrying rifle-shaped wooden staffs. Pan shows a group (of the auxiliaries?) cordoning off a crowd of civilians using the staffs.

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