A letter on page 2 of the China Mail refers to the 'frayed state of the nerves of the majority of bona-fide residents and hard-worked officials' and calls for forbearance, kindness and consideration.
They need it because they've hardly had time to recover from the rigours of the occupation and the situation is still very difficult:
The Japanese left no appreciable stocks of...food. Peanut oil, fish, beef, vegetables, sugar and salt are in seriously short supply....As to firewood, Hong Kong is iving off floors and doors.
Source:
HKRS 41/1/547/7410/45 'Food and Fuel Position', October 1945,cited in William Roger Louis, End of British Imperialism, 2006, 347
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