香港索償協會
REPARATION ASSOCIATION H.K.
242, FUK WING STREET, 1/FL.
KOWLOON, HONG KONG
TEL. 7201283 7282387 3661487
FAX: 3111334
4. Any person who do not obey to the following rules will be beheaded.
a) Bringing Military Bank-Notes out of Hong kong for profit without permission.
b) By
By denouncing the value or attempting to disturb the circulation of the Military Bank-Notes.
c) By changing or attempting to change the fixed exchange rate from Hong Kong Dollars to Military Bank-Notes.
d) By any other means to disturb the circulation of the Military Bank-Notes.
Signed by:
The Commander of the
Imperial Army of Japan
Therefore, under those coercive circumstances, Hong Kong citizens were forced to exchange their life savings of blood and swet to those Japanese Military Bank-Notes. Also, all the citizens were forced to hand in their valuables like gold, silver, jewelries and etc. to the Japanese Army, and all these Hong Kong dollars and valuables were systematically collected and sent back
back to Japan.
And till the end of August, 1945, Japan declared unconditional surrender. After the V-J day, the Japanese Army just left Hong Kong, but without mentioning a word of what happened to those Military Bank-Notes, and without anouncing when and how to handle with those Military Bank-Notes. The Hong Kong citizens have been continously contacting the Japanese Government since the surrender on the question of refunding their Hong Kong money. For the past 44 years, there had been no answer from the Japanese Government. And there is still a total of over half a billion yens both in the form of Military Bank-Notes and the Bank-Notes issued by the Bank of Japan in the hands of those
those Hong Kong citizens.
The critical point is that the declaration by
by the Japanese Government during the war should be valid because: -
1. According to the decree, all Japanese Military Bank-Notes and Japanese Bank-Notes were back by huge reserve, and all the Hong Kong dollars were cleaned out from the pockets of all Hong Kong