【193頁：住友の社員は疲弊している彼らに帝国ホテルから食事を届けさせた】

Everyone is exhausted and sick. They have lost weight and have hollow, thin faces. The bad food aboard the SS Aramis and the nights on deck have taken their toll and Sumitomo is shocked by their condition. The following days they are served oatmeal with sugar for breakfast, and both lunch and dinner come from the Imperial Hotel.

【194頁：日本人のお手伝いさんも住み込んでいた】

The entire household staff - they all live on the property - Takesan, the housekeeper, the three cooks, Yamposan, Burukawasan and Hyokisan and the two maids Soemidja and Mitsuko, make an appearance. Takesan is a kind of secondary supervisor. She is over 60 and does not have to be as submissive as the young Japanese women. Then they meet Mr. Hirata, their liaison with Sumitomo. He has been in America for four years, 'he had studied English,' so they call him Mr. Hirata and not in the Japanese way with san after his name. Later the whole group is also presented to the representatives of the local authority. Even the children have to show up. We must all bow down and listen to a long speech,' writes Annie,

【194頁：連続して13日間働くように強制された】

The next day the men are given instructions by a high-ranking officer of Sumitomo. The men will have to work hard (13 consecutive days, the 14th day is free), or otherwise will be severely punished. The men must swear to an oath, which among other things states that they will not try to escape. According to the Geneva Convention, such an oath is not allowed. The men make some money, but that money is not paid out to them. Hirata controls the money and if something needs to be paid, he provides for it.

【197頁：帝国ホテルからの食事は止まったけれど】

The food from the Imperial Hotel stops after two weeks and then the schedule of home cooking by the Japanese cooks begins. Sumitomo food stamps for them and also buys food on the black market. In the morning they get oatmeal together with a cup of tea and a slice of bread. At one o'clock it is a mixture of rice with barley, and other grains with some vegetables in a thick sauce and a cup of tea. In the evening the one o'clock lunch dish is repeated, but they also get a bowl of soup beforehand. Everything is tasty, but it's the same every day, there is no meat, hardly any vegetables, no fat, no sugar, and nothing in between. It's not healthy, especially not for growing children. They have been advised to chew the food properly to release the few vitamins, but it is annoying. You're sitting at the table chewing for a long time. Wim turns very skinny and he dreams of macaroni with cheese and tomato, and tasty pastry.

【200頁：住友グループはオランダ人捕虜の事を信用していなかった】

In late April, two cars arrive to fetch the men to be presented to the President of Sumitomo, but after that silence kicks in again. Will this work ever commence? They begin to think that they will serve as exchange material for all those students who were sent to the United States on a scholarship from Sumitomo and who, at the outbreak of the war, were interned by the Americans. If only it were true. These exchanges take place on the island of Lorenzo Marques, an island off the east coast of Africa. But then, at the end of May, a new resident appears at the court, a special Kempe Tai guard Hamaichi Tanaka who will live in the gatehouse with his family. From there he can look out over the group and the gate, which was soon erected after their arrival to prevent them from leaving the site. Tanaka will accompany the men to work; it will happen after all.

【200-201頁：ようやく仕事？が始まった】

On June 4, the men go to a ceremonial introduction, as the Japanese call it, in the laboratory to become acquainted with the 'colleagues' with whom they will work. The eighth of June is their first day. At half past seven they leave with a packet of sandwiches for lunch and come home at half past six, tired from hanging on to the handles in crowded trams and trains. The trip to Sumitomo's laboratories at Ikuta Noborito takes an hour and a half. First with a tram to the Dayama station on the beltline, crammed into the tramcar from the beltline to Shinjuku, and then by a suburban train to Noborito. After a ten minutes' walk up a steep hill, they arrive at the laboratory at nine o'clock. Willem and Henk are assigned a room together and the others get a room in another building. Everyone receives a design from the Japanese engineers, but only Wim gets material to actually make something.

【201頁：住友グループは信用していなかった？ オランダ人はこっそりと高性能ラジオを作り、アメリカの放送を聞いていた】

The Sumitomo engineers know they cannot really trust the Dutch, but they　are asked to write long reports for the army, who organized the whole　'show'. In order to type these long reports, it is quickly determined that　Corrie Leunis joins them. One day some officers come with a lot of amazement and look at the large pile of paper, which they have　produced. I don't think anybody has ever read any of it,' writes Geo　Levenbach. They mostly make calculations, and don't perform any　practical work. It therefore remains mysterious. Were they brought　from Java to do this work? The work signifies little, a college sophomore could do it', according to Beb.　 Wim has to build a measuring device for vacuum tubes. He creates it　in such a way that with a small alteration the device is capable of　receiving news from San Francisco. In the evening when they walk to　the train, the news is shared, in camouflaged Dutch. At one point they　get the impression that Tanaka understands Dutch, although his English is very broken. After a few days of sharing their news, an engineer inspects the 'measuring device', but does not see how it can be changed into a receiver. The next day, however, Wim and Henk are moved to another room. The measuring device is supposed to come later, but that of course never happens.