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The colony deteriorated in two days to such an extent that it will take years before it can be straightened out. It will more or less be carried out at the point of a gun. The troubla has been that we allowed far too many refugees without means of support to remain in the colony ineload of getting them back to their native villages. So long as we were prepared to feed them, house them and allow them on the streets in the day time to beg they were quite content to stay there.
Within a very short time, they were leaving the xx colony
in hundreds and thousands, they were going through Macao at the rate of 2,000 per day and how many were g ing from Kowloon over the border cannot be determined.
3750 Portuguese refugees were sent by the Japs. to Hacao and 400 French people we. e sent to French Indo China. The general imp:ession is that they are anxious to get rid of all Zuropeans no matter hat their nationality. Unemployment is general bacause banks are closed except to Chinese add neutrals and there is no business being conducted.
The Japs. refused all offers of help from neutral consuls and refused to have anything to do with the Red C oss, 8 ying they would run their b siness themselvea.
Yano the Japanese Consul who was friendly towards us, was suddenly whisked back to Japan.
The food situation in Macao is quits as bad as in Hongkong, already the e have been rice and bread riots. The Governor is still in offics but there is a large infiltration of Japs. They walk about in full wiform and their planes a e flying overhead the yhole time in spite of protests from the Gor. Fukuwi who is also European winded was taken away from Kacao and another man had been appointed. The general plan; for Hacao is not to occupy it by Jars, but to take it over eventually and run it by puppett, putting in a kang Ching Hai
man.
In Chungking the anti-Briti h f eling is very high. The Chinese up there are very pro American but one can feel the bitterness between the Chinese for the English. On the road! up I frequetly came into contact with Chinese who had left í Hongkong and there again I met it. They usually started off by asking why we ever attempted to defend the colony and an inevitable remark was "why didn't the British fight".
When I left H.K. there were about 1500 soldiers left on the island the remainder had been taken away •
Phylis Hybris Stan
Hanifi
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