5
PAY OF CHINESE.
Before 1st April
After 1st April
Hours of work.
3 lbs rice and 40 sen per day. 90 sen per day and no rios.
a.m. to 7.30 p.m. with half hour for tiffin. dissatisfied but unable to get other work.
Workers
159
It cost $20.00 for a fitter job and this squeeze goes to the Chairman of the Chinese workers, a TING NGOK previously employed by British as draughtsman to Chief Engineer.
TAIKOO DOCHYARD See special report.
MILITARY
The Military Authorities do not appear to be very active. Reliably reported mumber under 2,000.
The police authorities are much more active.
The Army are responsible for the arsa from Garden Road to West Point. Little is as yet known of this area. Murray Barracks is the only barracks known to be used by them.
They do bayonet drill on both the Cricket Club ground and hurray Barracks parade ground almost every morning.
ANTI AIRCRAFT DEFENCING,
Two 3" mobile guns on small piece of ground in Whitfield Barraok. Map Ref: 1/2:56/1/250,000, an be seen from road. Very bad position believe trees screen view.
Captured guns.
Including damaged A. A. guns and 6" pieces are stored on space ground near Causeway Bay.
TAIKOO
There appears to have been little if any demolition carried out at TAIKOO. It appears that as son as the Japanese came, the workers started looting and took away all valuables from the offices. Unfortunately they were not apparently interested in drawings or plans which they left scattered on the floors. The foremen appear to have worked under some arrange ent whereby the tools were their property, probably it was merely their responsibility that no tools were stolen. In any event it is asserted that because they had tools stored in the Dockyard they all went back to work for the Japanese, The Japanese policy was to first employ the number one of each department plus a token staff. These men spent almost a month getting ready to re-start work. At the end of this period work was started. See special report and map.
INDIAN S.
The Indians are now in the words of one refugee "belong maber one people". In other words they are receiving excellent treatment from the Japanese. They have many representatives in the Government several being highly paid.
The Indian police are solidly behind the Japanese they appear to revel in knocking the Chinese about at the slightest provocation. The Japanese appear to be using them cleverly as a battering run.
An Indian Independence League was formed at a very early date by one SOBIL KHAN, who case to Hong Kong after the surrender. He appointed two people to run the League No. 1 D., Khan (late HF. Medical Dept.) and ATIK resident of Hong Kong. It is rumoured that C.J. Ruttojee, his son, Abbas Khan and Ferozali (Supt. of Mails) and some 16 other Indians wore arrested at 0400 hrs. on 30th March because they refused to join tim Independence League. To have no kaowledge of how long they were detained.
A refugee states that on two separate occasions he saw Indian soldiers drilling on Murray Barracks parade ground under a Japanese officer and Chinese Interpreter who gave the, orders in English. This is not confined by any other sources at the moment.
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