Chungking (XRVC) in English for English Speaking world
10.3.43.
HONGKONG: JAPANESE: METHODS TO EVACUATE CHINESE (?Shirekwing): To 174
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15.52 ense the still serious food shortage situation in Hongkong, the Japanese are reported to have drawn up plans for reducing the former British colony's present population of little. over 900,000 by: 200,000 within six months, While voluntary evacuation is being promoted with the aid of various atrocious methods, conpulsory evacuation will form the chief means of clearing people out. Accer ling to a recent escapee, the Japanese plan to evacuate 30,000 people monthly, beginning in March, until the goal of 200,000. is reached. Plans were made following a series of conferences between the Japanese and the puppet Kwangtung regime, in which it was decided to send all évacuees to the following four places: Shanghai Hainan Island, Taiping, (alcoastal town in northwest Hongkong at the mouth of the Pearl river) and Kongmoon (a Japanese held
own in the Sunwill district of South Canton).·
Meanwhile, the Japanese in Hongkong have raised commodity prices
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to make living more difficult for the populace and to force them to evacuate voluntarily. Other indirect methods consist of mass arrests without the slightest. pretext, and the casual beating up of pedestrians.Technicians are not only forbidden to leave: they have been forced to register with the Japanese authorities who are planning to conscript them in case of necessity.
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