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3 unusual facts about Lim Bo Seng


Lim Bo Seng

In 1997, Singapore's Chinese-language television channel TCS Eighth Frequency (now MediaCorp Channel 8) aired a television drama, The Price of Peace, about the Japanese occupation of Singapore.

They also met guerrilla fighters of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), two of whom were Chin Peng and Lai Teck, where they reached an agreement that the resistance group would fall under British command, in exchange for weapons, supplies and training.

In Perak, Davies and Lim reestablished contact with Major Freddie Chapman, who was part of a British unit that stayed behind after the Malayan Campaign, carrying out small-scale attacks against the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Malaya.



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