INDIANS
Seven days before Sgt. Fyffe left the camp he had the opportunity of talking to the Sikh driver of a ration van; he had known the driver in the Police Force. The Sikh complained bitterly of the high prices in the Colony and said straight out that he wished to heaven the British would come back. He also indicated (what Sgt. Fyffe succeeded in confirming from a Cuban exchange prisoner on the Gripsholm later) that there was considerable friction between Indians and Japanese in the Colony.
The Indian complaints were that no facilities were afforded them for obtaining the special lard and flour which forms so large a part of their dict and that per- mission to keep goats could not be obtained from the Japanese authorities. Sgt. Fyffe's information is that in July, 1942, 28 members of the Indian Police Force in Hong Kong, in flat disregard of Japanese orders, obtained a junk and sailed secretly out of the Colony by night for a destination unknown. Their reasons for this action wore said to be extreme dissatisfaction with Hong Kong under Japanese rule.
CHINESE AND JAPANESE
Sgt. Fyffe confirmed that the attitude of the Chinese Superintendents in the Stanley camp was markedly pro- Allica but he was unable to supply any direct information as to the attitude of the Chinese or Japanese.
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