MALAGASY NATIONAL POLICE

tour was the observation of a much smallde Chinese school where those
Chinese of Red or mainland sympathies are alleged to send their offspring
for education. Technical Advisor Boeuf hastened to explain that these
suspicions could not be proven and that-as far as he was concerned he
had no definite evidence of Communist activity on the part of the Chi­
nese minority group.
4. During the Tea nts various conferences with the Malagasy police
officials, it was readily apparent that those officials were very an­
tagonistic to the Chinese elements of the population and kept them under
surveillance, Inspector Beeuf explained this saying that the Chinese
'were inclined to be small trades people and much more successful than the
Malagasy, hence the jealousy.
5. Inspector Boeuf stated that there are just a few widely scattered
villages in the Tamatave area and that in each ivillage there was probably
a Chinese storekeeper or two., but no concentration of.Chinese nationals
at any other point other than in the city of Tamatave proper.
6. While in Majunga, the French Technical Advisor to the Provincial
Police was questioned concerning the presence of Chinese Nationals in
the area. He stated that the Chinese population in Majunga province was
negligible, there being just a few shopkeepers.
7. At Tular the Team had an opportunity to spend considerable time
with Christian Mallet, former French Commissioner of the Tuldar Provincial
Police, and now Technical Advisor, who is very friendly towards Amer­
icans. (See X-A-5 above.) He also served in Indochina where he married
a Vietnamese girl from Saigon.' The Team spoke to him quite frankly about
the Chinese problem. He stated that he had given this problem considerable
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