Old EAS Alarm From Singapore [1942]

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The Battle of Singapore took place in the Southeast Asian theater of World War II when the Empire of Japan invaded the British fortress of Singapore. The fighting in Singapore lasted from February 7 to 15, 1942. It resulted in the fall of Singapore—the main British military base in Southeast Asia—to the Japanese and represented the surrender of the largest group of British servicemen in the entire world. history British Prime Minister at the time, Winston Churchill, called it the "worst disaster" in British military history.
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Approximately 80,000 Australian, British and Indian Empire soldiers were taken prisoner, joining a further 50,000 soldiers captured by the Japanese during the Malaya campaign.
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The Chinese, who were the predominant population in Singapore, long remained a material support for China in its war with Japan. This was one of the reasons for the Japanese invasion of Singapore and the subsequent atrocities inflicted by the Japanese occupation on the Chinese.