Lim Bo Seng was a staunch anti-Japanese even before the war had started. He was also an active contributor of the China Relief Fund and was later made the Director of the Labour Service Department in the newly formed Singapore Chinese Mobilization Council. Certain that he would be a target of reprisals for the Japanese, he was compelled to flee Singapore just before it capitulated.
He managed to reach Sumatra where he then made his way to Colombo and finally to Calcutta in India where he met a British officer, Basil Good fellow, who persuaded him to join the British efforts in setting up a joint China-Britain network in Malaya. This resistance force was then known as force 136.
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