G. C. D. & Co.
·SECRET
INDIAN CENSORSHIP
Intercepted I. S.C. Place Calcutta
Date 21.3. 42.
FROM-
To:
Daniel S.K. Chang,
Fan Chuang,
Kuo Fu Lu,
Chungking, China.
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Letter :-Date 13. 3. 49.
Mrs. Daniel S.)
P.O. Box No.
HAWI, HAWAII.
Language English.
Distribution :—
Chief Censor, India. New Delhi
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LETIER RELEASEI
MAY 1942
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Recent Conditions in Hongkong.
If the people are willing to leave, they are given one cattie of rice each anɑ this small quantity is supposed to be sufficient till they reach the Chinese territory.
No one is allowed to carry any extra clothes or luggage when leaving Hongkong. If anyone carrying more than HK$10, the money is confiscated. Many people wearing leather shoes, watches or possessing fountain pens are asked by the Japanese border sentry to surrender them. The Japanese also supply evacua- tion sampans to carry the Chinese people to either Macao or other Chinese territories. However, these people must apply for a pass, and then they have to line up at the Kowloon pier to wait for their turn. Once they line up there, they cannot leave until their turn comes. Mr. Meng saia by one look at them it will break one's heart, because no matter rain or sunshine they have to wait there.
They have no place to rest or sleep, and there are no toilet facilities. The filth accumulated since the war just made the pier stink to Heaven.
The
There is no light or water in Hongkong for general Į use although the services have been restores by the Japanese.
Japanese require a deposit of 50 dollars Japanese note (equivalent to HK$100) before the water service can be resumed, and 8100 Japah- ese note as deposit for light before electricity can be supplied. Due to the fact that many people had very little money with them when the war broke out and that before Hongkong surrenderea, the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank burned practically all their banknotes in the Bank to prevent them from falling into Japanese hands, many people find it impossible be exchange so much Hongkong money for Japanese notes in order to get water and light. If they should do so, it would mean that they have no mɑney to buy rice which is more important for their sustenance. Consequently, many people have res- orted to using flush toilet water for their drinking and cooking purposes. The fhish toilet water comes from shallow wells and the people have to use their biscuit tins to extract water which will take about 15 minutes or so to fill the tin.
Since the war began over three months ago, all the streets in Hongkong and Kowloon have not been swept.
The sewage disposal system is disrupted so Hongkong is simply unrecognizable from what it used to be. Mr. Meng Baía that formerly Hongkong was clean and that there were hardly any mosquitoes, but now no matter where one goes, it stinks and full of flies and mosquitoes.
Due to the Japanese policy of not selling rice to the
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