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pro-British but have not been able to confirm this. Until mid-September last it was also possible to buy Chinese wheat imported via the New Territories. After that, according to a man in the trade, the Chinese Government stopped the supply. American Red Cross wheat was also on the market until the middle of 1942. It was widely stated that the Japanese were using it to feed their horses and this, I believe, to be correct.
Until December, 1942, the Japanese allowed Indians a flour ration of 5 to 7 lbs. a head a
a head a month: the amount varied from time to time. This was rather less than the flour ration of Europeans, which averaged about 7 lbs. a month. After December the flour ration to Indians was stopped.
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From December 1942 on, the attitude to Indians in Hong Kong changed for the worse. A case in point was that of the Indian Police at Breezy Path Quarters, Caine Road. They had been given to understand the department would pay their electricity bill and had no doubt been rather free in their use of electricity on that account. After some months in December when the bill had reached ¥500 it was referred back to them by the Police Department for settlement. told they were quite unable to pay it.
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The withdrawal of flour rations also illustrates the changed attitude of the Japanese. Just before I left Hong Kong I was told many Indians had had their passes withdrawn (this would mean they might be arrested without notice at any time). However I did not hear that any had been actually detained on this account.
All along Indian rations have been issued through the Indian Independence League. Thus if an Indian did not join the League he got no rations.
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