From Ng Ki Cheung's statement that men from the following places in Chinese territory took part in the resistance: Sha Fau at the head of Deep Bay, Sham Chun, Vai Tak, Tung Kun District, and Ngan Fui.
It is difficult to ascertain exactly how many men came from those places, but I have every reason to believe that there must have been over 1,000 men. It is quite impossible for the officers of the Chinese Government not to have known of the movements of so many men into our territory, and I trust the Viceroy will be brought to book. His attitude of hostility in the matter of the Customs and his failure to give any warning of the movement in the territory under his jurisdiction should not be allowed to pass unpunished.
Among the documents found in the Un Long meeting House is a letter addressed by one of the underlings of Major Fong to Ng Ki Cheung (No. IX). I would especially call attention to the following sentence in that letter: "All other particulars you will know fully when you see Major Fong, who will not in any way use force, but will freely allow all the villages to carry out their own settled plans."
Ng Ki Cheung informs me that by the sentence underlined, he understood that the villages could do what they liked. He says he never saw Major Fong, but that Tang I Shek went to...
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