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requested people passing by to give their signatures. At this time Miss LUI came to him and said, 'here is some news for you SO Sau Chung has been arrested by the Police'. She mentioned that several persons had already gone to Government House to request SO's release.
363. On hearing this he, TAM and LAM followed her and crossed the harbour, He thought it was an arrest made without any reason, and also that he was doing something right. He walked with the others up Garden Road and joined the group outside Government House. He and his group then followed LO Kei to the Central Government Offices.
364. When RAGGENSACK and others went with Mrs. ELLIOTT to the Central Police Station, AU YEUNG went, he said, with about ten others to the Star Ferry concourse and waited there until joined by LO Kei, RAGGENSACK and Miss LUI, and then, on LO Kei's suggestion, crossed the harbour to the Kowloon side. He thought that the reason for going to the Kowloon side was to hold banners and placards and demonstrate as had been done on the Hong Kong side. It was 8 o'clock when he arrived at Kowloon; a demonstration took place for about 15 minutes at the Star Ferry concourse in the form of soliciting the signatures of the people passing. He described LO Kei as saying 'we'll start our march or pro- cession now', LO Kei and RAGGENSACK taking the lead whilst he and the others followed, shouting encouragement to each other. He marched, he said, only as far as Public Square Street, when, as it was by then 10 o'clock, he left the crowd of about 100 and went home, giving a flag which he carried to one of the others. When he got home he was scolded by his mother and accused of being a 'busy body' by her.
365. On the following day about 12 noon, he went to the Star Ferry concourse on the Kowloon side to see whether anyone was standing there and, finding no-one, he crossed the harbour to the Hong Kong side to see if anyone was standing there: but there was no-one there. He then crossed back to the Kowloon side and on reaching it, saw TAM standing there with a placard on which were written some Chinese characters in red paint. He told TAM that he should not stand there any longer as it might be dangerous because he had read in the newspapers of stone throwing in Li Cheng Uk the previous night. Shortly afterwards a police officer arrived. The officer told TAM that he would be charged for causing obstruction unless he left in five minutes, whereupon TAM replied that he had not been causing any obstruction and that there was just a crowd of people watching him. TAM did not move and was arrested. On seeing this AU YEUNG became indignant and immediately crossed the harbour to Hong Kong with three or four persons to whom he had spoken on the Kowloon side merely for the purpose of going back and standing on the spot where SO Sau Chung had been standing before he was arrested; there to stage a silent protest.
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