{"id":9015,"date":"2014-05-29T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T05:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/?p=9015"},"modified":"2014-06-04T11:50:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T03:50:56","slug":"tan-ean-teck-endau-and-ww-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/2014\/tan-ean-teck-endau-and-ww-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tan Ean Teck : Endau and WW 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tan Ean Teck\u00a0 (1902-1944)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9019\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9019\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9019\" title=\"Tan Ean Teck (photo: Family Archives)\" alt=\"Tan Ean Teck (photo: Family Archives)\" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg 315w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives-210x320.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tan Ean Teck (photo: Family Archives)<\/p><\/div>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\">According to &#8220;Biographies of Famous Personalities in the Nanyang,&#8221; Tan Ean Teck came to Singapore from Tong Ann, China at the age of 16. He worked for about four years in his brother&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mymindisrojak.blogspot.sg\/2013\/07\/tan-ean-kiam-bukit-brown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Tan Ean Kiam<\/a>) company before striking out on his own,\u00a0 setting up\u00a0 his own rubber trading firm.<\/p>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\">He was a strong supporter of the anti-Japanese war effort in China, and contributed to charitable causes in both China and other lands. He also contributed to the Hokkien Huay Kuan, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the Tong Ann District Guild, as well as many schools and social institutions,<\/p>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\">But Tan Ean Teck&#8217;s life was tragically gunned down when he became a casualty of WW 2. On 19 April, 1944, the <a href=\"http:\/\/eresources.nlb.gov.sg\/infopedia\/articles\/SIP_905_2004-12-23.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MPAJA<\/a> (Malayan People&#8217;s Anti-Japanese Army)\u00a0 ambushed officials of the <a href=\"http:\/\/eresources.nlb.gov.sg\/infopedia\/articles\/SIP_1222_2006-12-09.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OCA<\/a> ( Overseas Chinese Association)\u00a0 en route to visit the Chinese settlement of Endau in Johor.<\/p>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\">A member of the OCA convoy,\u00a0 captures vividly what happened:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9020\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-Taken-from-Scholar-Banker-Gentleman-Soldier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9020\" class=\" wp-image-9020 \" title=\"Extract:: Scholar, Banker, Gentleman Soldier: The Reminiscences of Dr. Yap Pheng Geck\" alt=\"Extract:: Scholar, Banker, Gentleman Soldier: The Reminiscences of Dr. Yap Pheng Geck\" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-Taken-from-Scholar-Banker-Gentleman-Soldier.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-Taken-from-Scholar-Banker-Gentleman-Soldier.jpg 700w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-Taken-from-Scholar-Banker-Gentleman-Soldier-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-Taken-from-Scholar-Banker-Gentleman-Soldier-280x253.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Extract:: Scholar, Banker, Gentleman Soldier: The Reminiscences of Dr. Yap Pheng Geck<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tan Ean Teck&#8217;s body was taken back to Singapore and\u00a0 4 days later on 23ed April , he was buried in Bukit Brown, close to his brother Tan Ean Kiam.\u00a0 He was 42 years old.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9021\" style=\"width: 379px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-tomb-Raymond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9021\" class=\" wp-image-9021  \" title=\"Tan Ean Teck (photo Raymond Goh)\" alt=\"Tan Ean Teck (photo Raymond Goh)\" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-tomb-Raymond.jpg\" width=\"369\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-tomb-Raymond.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-tomb-Raymond-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-tomb-Raymond-280x277.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tan Ean Teck (photo Raymond Goh)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prologue: Endau and World War II<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\">In August 1943, in order to ease the food shortage problem in Singapore, the Japanese authorities mooted the idea of setting up new settlements outside Singapore and encouraging Singaporeans to relocate to these settlements to cultivate the land there. These settlements were planned to become self-sufficient in food supply. A settlement was created for Chinese settlers at Endau in Johore. (Source: Iinfopedia)<\/p>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><strong>From Alex Tan Tiong\u00a0 Hee <\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><em>My understanding, based on my late father\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/eresources.nlb.gov.sg\/infopedia\/articles\/SIP_1662_2010-04-15.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Tan Yeok Seong)\u00a0<\/a> account:<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><em> The OCA was not popular with the anti-Japanese elements that went underground to survive. Those living an open unconcealed life in public were natural targets for the Kempeitai who sought revenge against the Chinese, hence the pogrom. <\/em><\/p>\n<h3 data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">The pacification of Japanese antagonism was the OCA\u2019s raison d\u2019etre and which had to be traded by the raising of $50million from the Chinese community as a gift for the Japanese emperor\u2019s approaching birthday. This being done, the persecution or \u2018sook ching\u2019 then ended.<\/span> <\/em><\/h3>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><em>The communist terrorists were enterprising enough to merge with the anti-Japanese underground group to form the MPAJA. They accused the OCA as collaborators and monitored the Endau Project. Their opportunity came when they ambushed and fired at a convoy killing all except Lee Choon Seng who was Vice President of the OCA.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9022\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-check-for-50-million-Alex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9022\" class=\" wp-image-9022\" title=\"The $50 million ( Tan Yeok Seong family archives)\" alt=\"The $50 million ( Tan Yeok Seong family archives)\" src=\"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-check-for-50-million-Alex.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-check-for-50-million-Alex.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-check-for-50-million-Alex-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tan-Ean-Teck_Family-Archives.jpg-check-for-50-million-Alex-240x320.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The $50 million &#8220;ransom&#8221;( Tan Yeok Seong family archives)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><strong>Extract from Collaboration during the Japanese Occupation : Issues and Problems focusing on the Chinese Community by Han Ming Guang (Hons thesis for history):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><em>Even though Endau was administered by the Chinese, the fact that it was sponsored by the Japanese military and established by the O.C.A whom the MPAJA saw as an organisation of collaborators, meant that the Chinese administrators that administered the settlement were now targets for the MPAJA guerrillas. The MPAJA guerrillas ambushed the O.C.A officials that were on their way to visit Endau and in the process wounded Mr Lee Choon Seng, the chairman of the Overseas Banking Corporation. They also managed to kill Mr Wong Tatt Seng, who was in-charge of maintaining peace and order within the settlement, along with other Chinese administrators who were also living in Endau at the time of the attacks. <\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>While it was clear that the MPAJA viewed the members of the O.C.A as well as the Chinese leaders of Endau as collaborators and traitors, in general the people who were living in Endau did not share those views. They understood that the Endau plan was conceived by the O.C.A and <a href=\"http:\/\/eresources.nlb.gov.sg\/infopedia\/articles\/SIP_1686_2010-07-26.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Mamoru Shinozaki <\/span><\/a>in order to save Chinese lives from the dreaded Kempeitai , by giving the Chinese community a piece of land in Johore, for them to live separately and free from the Japanese military.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><strong>Pat Lin on life in Endau:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><em>According to my parents, Maggie Lim and Lim Hong Bee (H.B. Lim) both of whom were actively involved with the MPAJA in the Endau settlement (Yes, I was there too) there were people in the OCA who were what we may today call double agents. They included some very prominent local people who on the surface professed to be anti-Japanese, but who were informers who were usually rewarded by the Japanese. <\/em><\/p>\n<h3 data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">As with the French resistance, it was a very difficult time as people all lived under a climate of uncertainty as to who was about to betray them to the Japanese. My mother also had her suspicions as to those who carried out the covert assassination of informers.<\/span> <\/em><\/h3>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><em>She has a vivid story of having to deal with someone who was brought into the Endau clinic (she was the Endau doctor) one evening with a bullet in his head. As a physician she was duty bound to do everything to save him. She was filled with the reluctance to do anything as it was known by the Endau leadership that he fed information to the Japanese that led to people being taken away for execution or disappearing suddenly. Possession of any sort of weapons was punishable by death, but people like my father possessed hand guns that they somehow received from some source and were very carefully hidden.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><em>Endau was located in healthier environs and there were more people who managed to make a go of farming. The staples were kangkong and ubi kayu. My little family brought chickens up from Singapore piled up In chicken coops on top of a lorry. Some of them ran off into the jungle, and others fell prey to wild animals. Wild animals including roaming tigers were a real threat.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>The first year in Endau and Bahau were particularly bad before the first harvests. OCA members from Singapore would make periodic visits with whatever they could scrounge up including medicines. Some within the community tried being entrepreneurial by trying to sell black market food stuffs they somehow managed to obtain. Mom recalled being so hungry from having to work and nurse me but my father being ever the man of high ethical standards refused to allow the purchasing of black market goods.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><strong>An Epilogue on a Life Miraculously Saved<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\">The metal badge of the OSA worn on the chest, deflected the bullet\u00a0 that could have fatally wounded\u00a0 the Vice President of the OSA,\u00a0 Lee Choon Seng. He believed he was saved for a reason and his life took on a spiritual quest in the aftermath of war. <em> <\/em>Lee Choon Seng subsequently founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinatownology.com\/Poh_Ern_Shih.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poh Ern Shih<\/a> to\u00a0 dedicate merits to people killed during the occupation. His grandson transfromed the monastery into Singapore&#8217;s first green temple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\">***********<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=715528154&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D\"><em>Editor&#8217;s Acknowledgement : This blog post is a compilation of first hand accounts and research from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/bukitbrown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Heritage Singapore Bukit Brown\u00a0 Facebook Community<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tan Ean Teck\u00a0 (1902-1944) According to &#8220;Biographies of Famous Personalities in the Nanyang,&#8221; Tan Ean Teck came to Singapore from Tong Ann, China at the age of 16. He worked for about four years in his brother&#8217;s (Tan Ean Kiam) company before striking out on his own,\u00a0 setting up\u00a0 his own rubber trading firm. He was a strong supporter of the anti-Japanese war effort in China, and contributed to charitable causes in both China and other lands. 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