Not only that Gil its how they treated the soldiers and their gear also how they made complete messes of RAN vessels eating like slobs just up & leaving their food scraps all over the ship even sleeping in the officers bunks with soiled greasy clothes yep they were mongrels.
And if they thought the Japanesewould welcome them that would be a lark at the first sign of trouble by any of them they would have been made to kneel and lose their head on the spot in front of all their mates the Japanese did it to the Americans in the Bataan Death march if you could not keep up your bayoneted or shot, one officer questioned a Japanese officer about the harsh treatment of the prisoners, to which the Officer withdrew his sword and cut the officers head off where he stood!