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sons is under consideration, but it is hoped that this may at least be deferred until we can be assured that Hongkong will no longer be used as a transit point for those repatriated
from the North.
The work would presumably entail handling (in transit or otherwise) large numbers of Chinese "recovered" in Malaya and the N.E.I. and might involve the employment of the Relief Staff for which our establishment provided.
9. Thenormal staff of the office has comprised one non-Chinese clerk, one Chinese clerk, one steno-typist, one messenger and
myself. As the non-Chinese members had for two months consist- ently worked a nine hour day with a 'seven day week, I have this week engaged an extra typist.
10. This report would be incomplete if I failed to stress the importance of giving every facility for the early return of those business men who, on official advice, accepted immediate repatriation in order that they might return directly business could be resumed. They will have considerable leeway to make up against the uniformed Ambassadors of American trade who seem to have infiltrated in the guise of U.S.A. liaison officers with the Chinese forces.
Mustergangg
I/C Civilian Repatriation.
22.11.45.
NOV 23 1945
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