CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945 — Page 39

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In the evening the very adequate street lights accentuate the vividness of the scene. The two large pleasure marks called the wifet orld" and the "Great orld» bristling

16h Chinese, Indian, Malay and ritish and Dutch Civilians, and British, erican, Indian, Dutch, French and even inese troops, are no gay and blatant that one has really no doubt tat for

on the tar is definitely over.

One begins to wonder vletler this gaiety ir not more tun merely sit erficial then one was one's first deal in

I COLI. I all. ritish: Military and naval est bliziniemts tile food seas, if not bad, at least monotonous, accompanied inevi- & bly be a scl. smcer of co round vitamin pills to reco pense

..s fresh neat m freak recetables at one never gees. If after one's offici:l meal one still feels Lavery, one cannot do bucl. aborto 36, Decaras em or er As come out to the efvect that per omel in w 120mi mar not but cooked foods in restturts in

If one tries Raffles, now open ag an Motel, there is te inevitable 1 V ration for siguin es Aimer abd Lard and 1 i teresting lavy ration biscuits rit. coffes afterwards. It is 1ficult to julge üle antive food situation. IN SLe Met

orid, and she wreat orld", in fect im al te rent nur nts and smli satile .01968 there seems to be All abioidance of meat fig fres vegetables I fruit, bb rice is not so ver- anarent. win, there are noticeably few people is Lots of resturants laguting apple food, so ner. egg rices are li One inlcation that stlle gitnation is 10% so moved is de order ro alati tre ns to hum comte tool. We o ject of tis is bobl. So bril e

Prices LLA 10 000 perve fond for the bives 1.1.0 revirs it Lere

cises of food poisoning in the to a ch The cases of il tess or death birom drinking the local rice 1:188 Recburta tilac.. Srops V se re als rly buried path a larve notice of autorization, tav. ver-r sre there

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re forbicie posters, carry the

Curry Be Tord "Deati

ord Death, f Mhone by the AOI C-Lent st during bil heat treek nuo.. 5.1 quol a mat Der of soldiers Ziel Growk (rifkin rics mine,

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market in also co. Iwing. One is one hand

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Where

OR is flovled with fairl- c..eap crepe-polled Bloes. so a fir mount of Xian sil s for sale. The suck an imigenous coločit as a sarone is almost unobt imble. in a £und toe of onds of litle utility such as cheap jewellery orirments, 012 looks a:v. pre-var Jrist as c rès. fant fetlers see: coxious to sell these times eva2.

loss in order to et a little cari. in bond.

Of course it onld be mentioue? i. t next to the Maler Toller an. Die Intian rumes, te most frequent currency is the AI and

cigarette. In the treets one is be-

res ofceri. g as

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ollars fifty cents, Japanese ci

sie, ed by Chinese, fails et (elays of all

mcl as to dollars fifty cents for a packet of twenty Lesere re-sold or the streets at tree to etler :ith a great miscellany of lo te a. ci rs of abious nake. Do bad is the situation ti cigarettes are bein sold separately, by olles

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rettes t

There is a surt er source of revenue for le uscrupulous tis inley trade. One bottle of Montel fetolies

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s fuck us eimity Dalam dollars.

A further interesting f ctor in the current

e only evidence of tis Dow

situation is the r cial grife.

is ble surprising p ucity of numbers of Malare in EUR. One hears Carb Mar Mye hostl- retired to Marpongs up-comtry.

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