Mr. Curtis the American consul told me that the American residents here outnumber the Europeans. There are close 500 Am. Europeans, but before Japanese occupation there were 1500. The Japs are seen in great numbers everywhere in government of shops but few are in the city. I have seen groups of Japanese children clad in gray/summer attire with their pink/rainbow umbrellas, or parents are consider them, wandering the streets, merry & heedless.