When Bellamy tells him that the war is over, Keiller implores him to convey the information only to Lambert.
Keiller, a prisoner who has been brutally beaten for trying to escape. Peter Bellamy, is captured by some Japanese soldiers who are driving by in their truck. Some time later, an American plane is spotted on the horizon. As punishment for the sabotage of the radios, Yamamitsu takes six prisoners hostage and declares he will execute them all if he is disobeyed. Knowing that if Yamamitsu learns of the surrender, he will order the massacre of all the POWs at his camp, as well as the women and children held at a neighboring camp, Lambert instructs Dutch to disable the newly rebuilt Japanese radios. Soon after, Dutch prisoner Piet Van Elst switches on a jerrybuilt radio that he has hidden away and hears a broadcast announcing the surrender of Japan.
When a shipment of mail arrives for the first time in a year, Lambert worries that two of the crates may contain replacement parts to rebuild the damaged radios. Lambert, fearing that the Japanese will retaliate if the war goes badly for them, is trying to prevent all war-related information from reaching the camp. Afterwards, Cyril Beattie, a disgruntled British diplomat, accuses Lambert of inflaming the Japanese by ordering his men to destroy the enemy's radios and dispatches. Lambert, the British officer in charge, protests the killing as a violation of the war conventions, Yamamitsu spits on him and promises to slaughter all the prisoners if Japan loses the war. Yamamitsu, who has just ordered the execution of a prisoner for trying to escape. Known as "Blood Island" for its inhumane treatment of those incarcerated, the camp is ruled by the sadistic commandant Col. During World War II, British POW's are interned by the Japanese at a prison camp off the coast of Malaysia.
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