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who apparently took the lead in fraternity with the Japanese, denouncing the Parsee community as pro- British. There is a rumour that Mr. C. H. Ruttonjee and his son, Abbas Kahn, and Ferozali (Superintendent of Mails) with 16 other Indians, were arrested but later released.
The Indian police also to a very large extent were taken over by the Japanese. In the main they seem to have offered service as the Chinese police, but in outing districts the Japanese seen to have taken them on as a running concern, e.g. at Stanley Prison the Indian warders continued to perform their duties when the internment camp was being set up and some infomation from the camp has spoken of their assistance to the internees. In the main, favoured treatinent seems to have gone to the heads of the Indians, particularly in the prison, and they are reported as revelling in knocking the Chinese about on the slightest provocation.
There have, however, recently been reports which came from the Hong Kong Indian women who reached Free China that Indians in Hong Kong have been compelled to register for military service and are now liable to be called on at any moment by the Japanese.
As regards both the Indian and the Japanese population as a whole, it should be remembered that the Japanese have been using their control of the food rations as a means of keeping then in check.
3. Europeans. There have been a few nemes of Europeans or Eurasians reported as working with the Japanese. Apart from Dr. Selwyn-Clarke and the medical staff who have been engaged in health work the chief names mentioned have been
Mr. Carroll of Carroll Brothers. Eurasian stockbroker whose connections with the Japanese are known from Hong Kong police reports to have dated back long before the declaration of war.
Von Kobza. A Hungarian photographer who was given an appointment as official photographer under the Inmigration Control Scheme last year is now reported to be wearing the uniform of a Japanese Colonel.
lir. Kennedy Skipton. Hong Kong Civil Service) has reported to the Secretary of State in a letter smuggled out by an American who was repatriated that he has taken service in a civil capacity under the Japanese administration.
MV A.F. May: P.W.D. Reposen by Mr Kennedy Starch lon
Mr. Fran Gardner nd R.G. Gardner. Proprietors of the firm of Bosco Radio Corporation. These were officers in the Hong Kong R. N. V.R. (Frank was born in Japan and they both had previous business connections with the Japanese in supplying radio transmitting and receiving sets for South China and for the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong.) Since the surrender they have apparently been employed in the collection of radio and dismantling of short-wave sets prior to their export to Japan, and R. G. has, in addition, taken charge of a restaurant for Japanese officers in Cumberland Road, Kowloon.
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