Historic Records After The Year 1815

1.  Japanese Bombing in Colombo 

• In 1942 Japanese suicide bombers attacked the British base of Singapore 
• PM Mr. Winston Churchill admit that it was the greatest setback on British history 
• Sri Lanka selected to replace the south Asian forces base camp
• British navel officer Sir Geoffrey Layton appointed as a commander in charge in Sri Lanka in March 1942
• He select the Peradeniya botanic garden as his headquarters keeping the base camp in Trincomalee
• Japanese bombers attacked Colombo on 05th April and then Trincomalee few days later
• Colombo harbor, Rathmalana railway station instead Airbase and Angoda was highly effected from Japanese air attack 
• They have been destroyed a Navy warship at Trincomalee during the second attack after 4 days 
• Japanese intention was to attack the British DLI forces based in Rock House at Modara, north of Colombo harbor (it was one of the biggest arm warehouse and camp base)
• Also there had a school and St' Andrews church next to the Army camp
• Since 1940 till 1942 a Japanese trading organization been owned quite lots of shops in main street petta
• The owner and his family used to live at Modara in a big house at Dockland place near Ely house road where the Rock House army base next to this premises.
• The owner found as spy of Japanese government and captured later 
• His son fleet away from Sri Lanka but other have been kept in a army camp at Diyatalawa 
• Immediate action taken by British Government to hide the camp from the site 
• They destroy the St' Andrews Church keeping all statues in Japanese owned house 
• Japanese Air force may not be able to locate the area when they targeting the church 
• Japanese fighters later arrived to bomb the place but misled the plan and drop their bombs at Colombo harbor
• ref-saman chandana kuarasinghe- principle -Imbula pra school /lankadeepnews paper 17-03-2013