TNAG-2016-FCO40-2871-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-Japan-1990 — Page 133

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香港索償協會

REPARATION ASSOCIATION H. K.

242, FUK WING STREET, 1/FL.

KOWLOON, HONG KONG

TEL. 7201283 7282387 3661487

FAX: 3111334

Government during the war should be valid because:-

1. According to the decree, all Japanese Military Bank-Notes and Japanese Bank-Notes were back by huge reserve, and all the Hong Kong dollars were cleaned out from the pockets of all Hong Kong citizens because any person who was found keeping or hiding Hong Kong currency will be beheaded.

2. On the back-side of each Military Bank-Note and Japanese Bank- Note was printed with "FACE VALUE GUARANTEE".

3. Japanese Army did not declare the expiration of its Military bank-Notes and Japanese Bank-Notes when leaving Hong Kong, SO these bank-notes should be valid forever.

4. Japan which does not honour its Military Bank-Notes and wartime issued

currency

is escaping International responsibilities and violating the International Law.

5. Japan had took all the valuables and money from the war victims (Hong Kong citizens) back to Japan to strengthen her economy, and now after 44 years she has become an economic giant. But the Japanese Government still has not paid up her debt.

6. And in the Sino-British Treaty signed in San Francisco between Britian and Japan had only mentioned wartime damages, there is not even a word saying about the issue

issue of military money.

7. Singapore, also a British Colony, got refunds from the Japanese Government for the Military Bank-Notes and Wartime Japanese Bank-Notes. Besides, it was stated in the peace-treaty

that all Military Bank-Notes in Singapore had been solved.

8. Both the Military Bank-Notes and the Wartime Japanese Bank- Notes which are now in hands of Hong Kong citizens should be considered private property, and the Japanese Government is still existing, why they should not honour their money.

9. All Southeast Asian countries like Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos,

the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore received either refunds or compensation from the Japanese Government, and citizens of Taiwan have all their Military Bank-Notes

full

even

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