CO129-594-6 Brigadier D M MacDougall- letters to Gent on civil affairs administration 15-9-1945 - 24-12-1945 — Page 29

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I have no idea whether my letters are reaching

My avenue you or whether signals are getting through. telegraphically is of course C.-in-C. to Chiefs of Staff and the supposition is that the latter distribute the wire in London to C.O. and W.0. ány have reached you you will no doubt have realised that they come direct from me if they deal with civil matters in any shape or form. I have sent two brief reports on conditions here, numerous appeals for staff, a number of currency telegrams and a batch of technical telegrams to cancel equipment orders in view of what we found here on arrival. I sent you a long letter a couple of days ago giving the background.

Things struggle on. Its all eyes on currency at the moment an anxious business for an amateur of finance like myself stepping off into waters dark and deep. So far so good, though I wish we had a finance man here. The excellent alibi provided by his absence

I wish also we had is perhaps wearing a little thin.

a personnel man with a couple of administrative men under him. I seem to have been invested with more far reaching and complete powers than any Governor I ever heard of, but I have insufficient staff to run a village shop.

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The surrender took place today a grand moment: and tonight he harbour is bright with the searchlights and rockets and star-shells of (literally) a hundred British warships. The port is stiff with large severe looking ships the most impressive display of massed power that anyone round here remembers seeing.

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