Lisbon maru's prisoner of war.

Listening to the old Zhoushan fisherman who rescued British prisoners in those days, he recalled that after the sinking of the lisbon maru, there was a lot of cloth floating on the sea, which was undoubtedly a pie falling from the sky for the island fishermen at that time. But when they found that there were still a large number of people on the sea, they resolutely threw away the salvaged cloth and rescued the British prisoners. However, the day after the shipwreck, several Japanese planes flew to the accident area for indiscriminate bombing. The Yangtze River estuary and Zhoushan waters are under the control of the Japanese army, and lisbon maru is an important transport ship of the Japanese army. Why didn't the Japanese fish it out in the future, but blew it up and sank forever?

Damn it, everything that should be saved is saved, and the American submarine is gone. Only Japanese ships and thousands of British prisoners of war need to be bombed. The Japanese put all their eggs in one basket and completely sank lisbon maru. Besides killing British prisoners and destroying criminal evidence, are there any skeletons in the closet? Are there any unusual treasures on board?

According to the memory of the surviving British prisoners of war, when they were taken to lisbon maru, they saw boxes of goods being carried on board. Judging from the degree of protection and handling weight, the contents in the box are quite precious. Because there are many goods and many prisoners of war, those not very important goods, such as a lot of cloth, are piled up on the deck.

According to a large number of historical records, during the invasion of China and Southeast Asian countries, the Japanese invaders plundered important materials, cultural relics and treasures everywhere and transported them to the mainland. Take Zhoushan as an example. After boasting that the sea fell, the Japanese army couldn't wait to search everywhere. The Matsuo Army of the Japanese Marine Corps, entrenched in the city, sent more than 100 engineers to the ancient battlefield of the Opium War to dismantle and transport historical sites such as 13 guns.

Fang Changsheng, former secretary-general of Zhoushan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, went to Japan to visit relatives. In a Japanese library, he found that there were actually many rural documents in Zhoushan, such as Putuo's ancestral home in Qing Dynasty, Yin Chao's quotations and so on. Most of these ancient books were taken away when Japan occupied Zhoushan. During the Japanese invasion of China, most of the ancient cultural relics in China were in the hands of powerful enemies. 194 1 year, Japan occupied Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, just as Japanese historian Kiyoshi Inoue said, in order to occupy that place, it plundered the necessary resources of the Japanese army. From this, we can boldly speculate that a lisbon maru with a load of more than 7,000 tons will never risk being attacked by the Allies, and only carry nearly 2,000 British prisoners to Japan, among which there will be other goods.

According to "He Zhi of Zhoushan", 1942 10, the lisbon maru was killed in the sea near Dongji Island at dawn on October 2, and there were a large number of British prisoners of war, treasures and cultural relics on board.