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title: Nippon Eigasha Djawa newsreel "Japan conquers South-East Asia", date card "15 FEBRUARI 2602"
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-verovert-zuidoost-azie-singapore-1942/
description: 'Black-and-white frame of a group of men carrying a white flag and a Union Jack along a road, with a white date caption at the foot in Indonesian: ''15…'
section: Collection
---

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# Nippon Eigasha Djawa newsreel "Japan conquers South-East Asia", date card "15 FEBRUARI 2602"

Black-and-white frame of a group of men carrying a white flag and a Union Jack along a road, with a white date caption at the foot in Indonesian: '15 FEBRUARI 2602'. The caption uses the Japanese imperial year (2602 equals 1942), so the date of the British surrender at Singapore is given in the Japanese calendar. The film cuts from advance cards ('KE MANILA', 'KE SINGAPOERA') to this scene (card-stacking: a chosen sequence of advances ending on the surrender).

## Text on the object

Original (Indonesian (Dutch-based orthography of the 1940s)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
15 FEBRUARI 2602
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
15 February 2602 (Japanese imperial year 2602 = 1942).
```

Only the date caption of this frame is transcribed; other cards in the film are mentioned in notes.

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