Following the time spent at Tamazato, and with the closure of the Karenko Camp in late June 1943, 28 of the most senior allied military officers and the governors of all the Asian colonies and their orderlies, were sent north by ship to Keelung and subsequently taken by train to Taihoku and interned in a camp called Taihoku Camp #5 which was specially created for them in the village of Mokusaku or Moksak which is the Taipei suburb of Mucha today. Shortly after, the 28 men were joined at Camp #5 by Lt/Gen. Tjalling Bakker (Dutch) and his aide Willem E. Heymans, and by Charles R. Smith, the governor of British North
The officers and governors were not required to do any work but the orderlies were engaged in gardening, hauling water and other chores around the camp.
During the time spent in this camp the Japanese attempted to use their captors for propaganda purposes and took them on picnics and fishing trips. The men were allowed to listen to gramaphone records, Radio Tokyo and to have the local Japanese newspapers.They had a collection of books and each officer had his own room. Conditions were good in this camp but it was not to last.
With the war progressing in favour of the Allies, the Japanese High Command decided to move these men from Taiwan to Manchuria. So at the first of October 1944, the top generals and civilians were sent down to Heito Camp and from there flown to Japan and thence by sea and rail on to Cheng Chia Tun, Manchuria. The orderlies were moved a week later along with a large number of other senior officers from Shirakawa Camp by ship from Keelung north to Japan. From there they went on to Manchuria to join the generals. Later, on December 1st 1944, the 32 generals, governors and their aides were moved to another camp at Hsi-an (now Liaoyuan) in north Manchuria where they remained for the rest of the war until rescued by the Allies and the Russians.
Moksak Camp lay idle for a couple of months and then on December 6th 1944, 15 men from Kinkaseki were moved there. These men had all suffered injuries down the mine and, as it turned out, they were being sent there to rest and recuperate before being moved on to Japan.
Even though it was supposed to be a 'rest camp', the men worked at gardening, growing cabbages and sweet potatoes that were mostly taken by the Japanese.
Then, on January 22nd 1945, these 15 men were moved to Taihoku Camp #6 and Camp #5 was closed. All of them subsequently ended up going to Japan a month later on February 21st aboard the hellship Taiko Maru. They finished the war in Hakodate and Akabira camps on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.