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Chinese lady, uho before the tur bus clerk vith the sipping firm of JRDIN! MIN. O, nd during the r VAS torture by the Jap, nose, his given it Lor o ipi n that the following reabsolutely essential for the How HONG KONG :- (^) Better and more em 1 trutment for the Chinese, with
positions open for then.
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Hand-picked British officiels tho would not Zuza descend to corrupt de ls.
Officials the know gouething of the Chinese brckground.
lnost complete distry new of the old rung.
Free education for 11 children vio could not afford to pay for schooling.
(ii) In the opinion of the Chinese èditor of one of MONG KONG's lording English-language newsp pers, who has been connected withthe Colony for over 30 y、 rg, the Goverment should bo scrupulously fair to all classes of the community. To criticised the Red Cross for helping only Europeans so for end doing nothing for the Chinese.
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(iii) well-known and respected HONG KON! banker thinks that friendship between CIA and BRIT IN is essential, but on the b sis of friends trosting ench other is friends not one 1 ving
11 the other nothing. He hop、s üht with the return of the British to the Colony, tlle Chinese will receive more coun1 treatment than before the occupation, when only the British could live on the Lock and ho ixli could never enter the
OLC KONG club.
(iv) A compradore in the cploy of 1. ding British commerciel firm's HONG KONG br. noh Lays that lo s two min worries the nod for buisness, and the bich cost of living.
His firm,
he s.yo, is at an absolute str: Astill until rods come from brord. The Chinese like trading and the best propagands DRIL IN could do would be to send slipe lndor with goods to the Colony in soon us possible. If this is not done, his opinion is tiựt to shall be beaten to it by the mericans As for the cost of living, that is higher now than it was unfor the Jag meso. who only exception is rice, but the rice for a le, to compradore evors, is old and mouldy. Thig be.ttributos to the dishonest methods of the duelers and not to the Goverment. The rice of peanut oil (essential to Chines cooking) is now 14 times what it wed to be before the wor, and in the black market" white sug r is 60 times its old price. A catty or broad, at the present official price of $3.20, costs 32 times as much as it used to it 10c. The corredore, hilereciating that it will take time before both those important items of work and livoli- hood are settled, says tht in the meantime people re forgetting their liberation from Jay: nose rule booruse of the concerns of tho moment.
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Just returned from CAMEO to resume work as tcher i gils college in HCO KONG is : Chinese lady, well versed in the English language, who take thinks and hopes that the wer les suen the end in KOM! KONG of the old order", by which cho hens the order based on race and privilego. Before the
r, she says, the first place in HONG KONG Vnt to the British,