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Shanghai (MISSAUTINE)
Tichy (Colonies)
29 June 1944
PBU

No 135-137 (3 parts, complete)

GIST

PART I I have the honor to report that the material conditions of life of the soldiers in the Occupation Corps in China have become progressively very hard, this in spite of the successive lowerings of the rate of the dollar, which have not sufficiently compensated for the rise and (recontinuation particularly?) of the prices mentioned at the end of my no 130-132 of 17 June 1944. The Europeans, however, have been able up until now to keep up an irreducible minimum by virtue of the substantial betterment of their pay under the decree of 10 January 1944. But the Indo-Chinese, not having benefitted from any similar measure, are in a precarious position; moreover, in the matter of morale, the crying inequality of their pay as compared with that of the Europeans is giving rise to an uneasiness which may in time become acute.

PART 2 (Here follow several examples of this inequality.)

Consequently I have the honor to request that a special temporary allowance for cost of living, amounting to 50% of their present pay, be granted to the Indochinese of the Occupation Corps in China, beginning as of 1 June.

PART 3 The Tonkingess Auxiliary Battalion is in even slightly more desperate straits, and therefore I have the honor to request that an allowance be granted to the Auxiliary Battalion (with respect to their present pay): 50% for unmarried men and heads of families not accompanied by their families, 60% for heads of families who have their families with them.

The added expense per month would be 140,000 for the regular troops, 115,600 for the 50% group of the Auxiliary Battalion, 28,700 for the 60% group. Total: 287,500 francs.

a - SSA no 127707.

Inter 20 June 44
Reel & Ill June 44
Trans 28 July 44
Reel & Ottawa August 11, 1944.

Examination Unit
National Research Council
August 11, 1944.