 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Hondo yeSingaporeyakaguma pana February 15 apo Lieutenant General Percival akaisa mauto eBritain, eAustralia neIndia kuna General Tomoyuki Yamashita. Newton neboka rake revarume vakanga vakuvara vakanga vachiri munharaunda yehondo. Urongwa hwavo hwokutiza hwakavhiringidzwa pavakanyengedzwa nevagari vomunzvimbomo. Pakupedzisira vakasungwa ndokuendeswa kujeri rePudu muKuala Lumpur, uko Newton akatarisana namaawa 60 okubvunzurudzwa. Akawana kuti pasinei zvapo nokuva kaputeni bedzi, akanga ari mukuru mukuru weAustralia wepamusoro-soro paPudu. Akakurumidza kusarudza kuti nzira yakanakisisa yokudzivirira nayo varume vake yakanga iri yokushandisa miitiro isingawanzova rutivi rwomutambo wemauto. Kutengeserana navanhuwo zvavo uye kupinza zvisiri pamutemo zvokudya zvokuwedzera kubva kunze kwakavaka chivimbo pakati pevasungwa vehondo. Apo akatamisirwa kubva kuPudu kuenda kuChangi Prison mukuru wake mukuru akanga ari Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Galleghan, uyo akanga asingabvumiri chimiro chaNewton kana nzira yaakaita nayo paPudu. Pasinei nokurwisana kwakawanda pakati pavo kwakauya sechishamiso muna March 1943 apo Galleghan akagadza Kaputeni Newton kuti atungamirire U Battalion, D Force. Izvi zvaisanganisira varume 695 zvikurukuru vakatorwa kubva ku22nd Brigade. Vakabva kuChangi uye kwavaienda kwakazova kuThai-Burma Railway muKanchanaburi, Thailand. Kugadzwa kwaNewton kwaireva kuti akanga asvetukira vakuru vakuru vakawanda. Pakanga pane fungidziro yokuti ingave yakanga iri nzira yaGalleghan yokumubvisa nayo muChangi. 