Arakan, Burma. c. May 1945. An envelope addressed 'To all prisoners of Rangoon jail', which ...

Arakan, Burma. c. May 1945. An envelope addressed 'To all prisoners of Rangoon jail', which contained a liberation message from the retreating Japanese. The message read: 'Rangoon, 29 April. To the whole captured persons of Rangoon Jail. According to the Nippon military order we hereby give you liberty and admit to leave this place at your own will. Regarding food and other materials kept in this compound, we give you permission to consume them as far as your necessity is concerned. We hope that we shall have an opportunity to meet you again at battlefield of somewhere. We shall continue our war effort eternally in order to get the emancipation of all Asiatic races.'