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In about mid-October 1962, some 12 weeks after my arrival
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who had been sent by me on an errand, returned to my bedroom. I was sitting at a table reading a book. AH LAM, who I had sent to cash a small cheque, for about HK$30, handed me that value in cash. He remained
standing beside me and when I looked at him he proferred a folded HK$500 note, saying at the same time "D.S.-eo, D.S.-ee."
"D.S." was the Police Force abbreviation for "Divisional
Superintendent." The suffix "ee" was used in Pidgin
English.
At this time, in spite of friendly advice I had been given and had sought unofficially from experienced colleagues about the existence of an internal corruption conspiracy, the questionable official advice I had been given about
corruption, the advice I would have expected to have received officially but had not received, and the circumstantial evidence indicating corruption in Kowloon which I had already encountered, I still did not find it
easy to recognise the HK$500 offer as being evidence of that internal conspiracy. Quite naively I thought that AH LAM had also been to cash a cheque for the D.S., that he knew I was new to Hongkong and had probably not seen such a large denomination note, and that he was showing it to me as a friendly, hospitable gesture. Accordingly I looked at it, handed it back and thanked him. He left my bedroom. His action nevertheless and with other, circumstantial evidence, gave me food for disturbing thought.
On 28 October 1962, about two weeks after the first approach from AH LAM, I was again sitting at a table in my bedroom reading a book. AH LAM, who had been sent on another errand, either completed his errand, went out and returned soon after, or added his second approach to the completion of his errand. I certainly remember him
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