During his visit, Bose was put up at the Chief Commissioner’s abandoned residence on the hill-top at Ross Island. After the evacuation by the British, all government offices were shifted to

Aberdeen, as the Japanese feared bombardment by the Allied Forces. The objective of the Japanese was apparently to isolate Bose from the local population. When he arrived at Ross Island, the

Japanese had ordered men, women and children to line up at the jetty. He thought that the crowd had come to pay him homage, and the fear that the Japanese had instilled in them made them

dare to dispel the impression.