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before, and they really did not like people
who escape.
After some time I was sent to be Prison Medical 0fficer
in charge of a prison camp for women of all nationalities.
There due to my specialized training in herbs, I was able
to make the best use of the natural resources of the camp
to treat patients who otherwise would have been denied
all medication. The Japanese thought that I was doing
too much for the prisoners and not letting them die enough,
and so they sent me to a prison camp in Japan, a camp
which they said was for terrorists. I was herded across the
Sea of Japan in a leaky ship and we were very badly treated
indeed. I was badly tortured by them, and their continual
torture gave me pneumonia. They did not want me to die
and so in their way they looked after me, and gave me
treatment. When I was recovering-I did not let the
Japanese know how well I was recovering-the earth shook;
I thought it was an earthquake, and then I looked out of
the window and found that the Japanese were running in
terror, and all the sky turned red, it looked as if the sun
was obscured. Although I did not know it, this was the
atom bombing of Hiroshima, the day of the first bomb on
October 6th, 1945.
The Japanese had no time for me, they needed all their
time to look after themselves, I thought, and so I managed
to pick up a uniform, a cap, and a pair of heavy sandals.
Then I tottered out into the open air through the narrow
unguarded doorway, and managed to make my way down
to the shore where I found a fishing boat. Apparently the
owner had fled in terror as the bomb dropped, for he was
nowhere in sight. The boat idly rocked at its


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