David MacDougall once again ((see November 2)) tells London how bad things are:
By shifts and evasions we have carried on for none weeks to conceal the essential weakness of our position, which is that the larder is bare, that the godowns are emprty and that the liberators brought nothing that fills stomachs or furnishes houses.
It's the ordinary Chinese who are suffering, and although they're now free from the cruelty and random violence of the occupation, it's not yet clear they've benefitted much in any other way from the return of the British.
Source:
Philip Snow, The Fall of Hong Kong, 2003, 298
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