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(vi) Preliminary enquiries have been held on to of the recent accidents to small trading vessels which have occurred i: local waters.
(vii) Meetings held under the supervision of the Harbour Master indicates a steady improvement in the conlitions and facilities of the harbour, and a genuine desire on bellf of all parties to return to normal com ercial trading as roon as possible,
(8)
COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE CO-ORDINATION BOARD.
Among the first of 616 i belicence agrault units to arrive in the Colony after the Japanese surrender was the Counter-Inteligence Co-ordination board, which con enced operations here in the first week of September. As part of the intelligence organisation centralised under Staff Officer (Intelligence) KONG-- KOG, the Board in ediately set to work on the not inconsiderable task of agcert iming the names of collaborators and Japanese war criminals, of obtaining the evidence am inst then to carrant their arrest, of interviewing the cotless vitres es to sir crines, and of preparing nominal rolls of sunnected persons for Aslivery to the arropriate authorities. soard lso undertook the res- ponsibility of investigating into the Japanese intelligence s sten and other matters of counter-intelligence interest.
It has 1.0% been found possible to arrane for all this ork to be carried on by various departments of the Military Goverment of HONG KONG. Investigation and preparation of capes co..cerning collaborators til henceforth be handled by the Director, Special Branch, of the Civil Police, Japanese intelligence and couter-intelligence generally become the direct responsibility of the Defence Security Officer; and the files and naimal rolls of Junere var criminals will le pagred to 10. 2
telligence assault it, which for:s part on ..e Taleral intelligence organisation under Staff Officer (telligence) 2007,
The Counter-Intelligence Co-ordination Docrà expects to "ind up its afreirs durin $.4 Course of the current test. Aere is no doubt that it has succes: fully broken te back of - for id ble task at one to the Colony to 20.
(9) A VISIT TO SINGAPORE.
A young british Naval officer who recently maid a s..ort visit to I Q ORE has returned to for a 1000 with an interesting account of hat he saw there. Lithow tie ma obter circumstances did not permit of his making hors l. in a superficial inpection of the city, his impressions as reported below give e fair picture of the releral conditions prevailing at the present time.
One's first reneral inpression on arriving at
SI CORN is favorable one.
Except in the dock area there is little evidence of bobing; there are very few buildings in the town in an obvious state of disuse or disrepair; on the other and one sees a lot of fresh paint and new Lop signs and street signs in Mwlish, the Japanese ones having been swiftl- deleted. seen busy and shops seen full.
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The streets are black ith rick-
shavs, trislas, bicycles and not a few private cars.
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