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There followed a hair-raising voyage: the ship had to dodge attacks by Japanese bombers, and two other vessels, the Kuala and the Vyner Brooke, were sunk.
But at dawn on the third day, the Mata Hari had to surrender to a Japanese destroyer. Put ashore on the island of Banka and separated from their menfolk, the women and children were detained overnight on a jetty without food or water. As Japanese soldiers wrenched off rings, watches and other valuables, she knotted her jewellery into a head scarf and it proved invaluable later in bartering for food and medicines.
The following day they were transferred to a makeshift camp at Muntok, originally built for coolies and with rudimentary sanitation. There they were joined by the survivors of other ships that were captured or sunk, among them Vivian Bullwinkel, the only survivor of a group of 22 Australian nurses who had waded ashore after the sinking of the Vyner Brooke. The rest were massacred by Japanese soldiers. Continued...
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