Where to travel, travel and route planner » asia singapore http://www.dankuna.com/blog Best travel, maps, GPS, weather, images, cheap hotels Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:15:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Old Ford Motor Factory, Singapore http://www.dankuna.com/blog/old-ford-motor-factory-singapore.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-ford-motor-factory-singapore http://www.dankuna.com/blog/old-ford-motor-factory-singapore.html#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:35:25 +0000 JohnMS http://www.dankuna.com/blog/?p=1815 [...]]]> The Motor Factory is a historic building in Singapore, located along . The factory is the site of the historic surrender of the British to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, at the end of the in World War II.

It was here that the meeting between Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival and General was held and the surrender document signed. Then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill referred to that event as the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in ”; it was also widely seen as a turning point for anti-colonialism in Southeast Asia. .
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