Captain Stanley Nelson - Prisoner of War

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PRISONER'S LOG - DAY 23

Exhausted. The work on the fishing platforms is tiring, but at least offers me a daily escape from the torment of Komatsu's visits, which grow more painful on each occasion. The trips to Junyo also offer me something else. A chance, a hope of escape. A message scrawled on a scrap of parchment was passed to me today by an old fisherman, detailing the basics of an escape plan. I have hidden it in a hole at the base of me bed, along with a tiny knife I was able to steal from the fish preparation kitchens on Junyo. By luck I was not searched on my return, and these 2 objects now offer hope of my salvation.

In the last of Komatsu's visits today I was subjected to such intense interrogation that I thought my head would split from the mental torture. The same question he asked, over and over again. "What is the access code for the BAF Armoury?" In desperation I hoped to mislead him by giving him the obsolete code to the old QCRF armoury - "Harlow-784C.R.I.". I hoped at least this might buy me some time, but instead the Captain merely laughed at me "That's what she said too. It is a lie." As I was knocked hard over the head and began to pass into unconsciousness the same thought went round and round in my head, "That's what she said...who is she? Who else do they have with such knowlege only a senior officer could possibly posses...?"

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Sir Stanley Nelson




<span style="color:#000066">Charles Canning </span><span style="color:#000066"> Foreign Secretary</span>