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which enabled me to secure the scant information which goes to make up my disjointed a moranda.
shen I visited anton it was with the dies of going up to Ling Yuen to make arrangements for the ecuuring of living uarters for my wife end fendly. hat town is in unoccupied territory and is reputed to be safe from bombing. ky pluns were frustrated by the sudden movement by the Jaya.which severed the previous route of com.unication. I returned to Hongkong to find news of permi .sion to go to tanada. I would mention here that after my escape,
I used another name, posing sa & hinese business man who formerly worked for the anadian Governzent.
hile in tunton I wet several agents of the Thungking Governuent and they were doing good work. The hing
iece sentries employed to meke street aeɛrches under the surveillance of the Japa allow revolvers and bomba lo 20 through, and are at heart 10 hungking.
There were a great number of 6th columnists in Fong kong and Newloon during the war, and this enabled the Japs to get our gun positions and information relative to troop movements. These were Chinese and Formosens who were either Jap subjects or. educ, teá in Japan. Most or the former Chinese members of the Executive and legislative ́ouncils have been forced to act & 8 figure-he ads on an Advisory Council. 1 che Bank with the exception of two or three Chinese Banks with no Chungking connections sre being liquidated and a first dividend or 2) per cent has been declared. afe Deposit boxes were returned to holiers in 11 banka but gold coin and bullion and foreign currencies were withheld and the holiere reimbursed at on arbitrary rut- in dəy militar yen, which is now supposed to b. worth two Hongkong dollars.
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Bost of the forries, launches und smell steamers have been salv ged in ilongkong, and the former ferry services are being maintained. h- lectric Company, the Telephone oupany, th Company and the raksay Company Lre all working smoothly. appears to be acarce, the only care being used are thos of privileged persons uni efficiale. 11 cars were confiscated by the Japa when they took over. Crude oil must also be scarce as the buses in Kowloon which use les l ngines have been cuttin, downA their schedules, and may have L. cease eventually.
looting by Chinese was very had before and after the surrender. Th: Zapy were not looting in general but confined their pilfering to Wetched tik vienerus. There was considerable rapin and xilling done in the Happy Valley district.
The Japs seem to be trying to please the Chinese in Hongkong, but under the skin the populac: am hoping for en ellied victory. They live in fear of the Japu daily. about 700,000 people have left Hongkong aince the surrender, returning to their villeges or going to unoccupied Chine. The Japu seen to be encouraging the exodus, and are enforcing compulsory registration of the entire population. Crime is on the decrease; for the Japs chopped off & few hundred heado per day for some time after their entry.
(a) TOKYO.
ith regard t the si tuction in Tokyo, r. greer, Canadian Chargé d'Affaires in Tokyo, said that having been confined to the Legation from the beginning of ecember, he saw practically nothing of what went on until taking ship at Yokohama; they were only allowed out for occasional visita to the entist or Bospital etc.
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aid on the 13th, April they saw tw. Pombs drop in an easterly direction, causing & loat or smoke and Jome fire, and in the opposite or westerly direction the same thing but to a
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