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places outside (the territory)
Sham Chun, Sha Tau and Wai Tak
& Ngan Tin in the Tung Kun district. Many were killed and
wounded.
On the 4th. (13th. April) Ping Shan supplied
pigs (for the fighters).
On the 6th. (15th. April) Ha Tsun.
On the 7th. (16th. April) Nang Chem.
This is a true account of the whole matter from
beginning to end.
With regard to Tang Cheung Tsai having gone to
HKong to present a petition Tang Tsing Sz & Tang A Nin of the
Ha Tsun district pointed them out as traitors & issued a re-
ward for their arrest. They also said that Tang Cheung Tsai
had taken the iron armour belonging to this district to HKong
and that they would not rest until he had been killed. They
took the card of Tang Kwok Lam to Ping Shan & applied for some
able bodied men to search Chaung Tsai's house but Tang Po Wan
being a near relation of Chung Tsai flared up at once so they
desisted.
On the 8th. (17th. April) he was arrested at
Kap Shui Mun & brought back to the meeting house at Un Long.
The gentry of Ha Tsun said Cheung Tsai belongs
to the Ha Tsun district, i.e. Ha Tsun deal with the matter. All
the other villages raised no objection.
Tang Tsing Sa & Tang Chik Ting took many of
those who came to fight from Egan Tin and went to Un Long to
get back Cheung Tsai, This was after the defeat & every one
had fled & there was no one in the meeting house. As to what
order