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the afternoon Yeung Fat came up and spoke to me there. Yeung Fat was then a Chinese Detective in the Hong-Kong Police Force and Inspector Stanton's Assistant. Yeung Fat's statement to me was to the effect that when Pang On and Wong Kam were Chief Chinese Excise Officers they used to pay hush money (expenses) to the Police, and he asked me why I did not pay it. I said I was a new man, but I would enquire.
6. I accordingly made enquiries of old Excise Officers and of Shea Wai accountant to the Opium Farmer. I was told that hush money was paid to the Police, that it was paid every month but only during the months when the smuggling of Opium took place. Also that the Opium Farmer did not pay the hush money but that it was paid by those who smuggled the Opium. The accountant Shea Wai told me that Wong Yau was the man who found the money required for the Police, I knew Wong Yau. He was a countryman of mine. Wong Yau was a broker and I was told used to purchase from the Opium Farmer for the smugglers the opium intended to be smuggled.
6. I was told the names of various members of the Police Force, both European and Chinese as those who were paid hush money. I was told that the European Members of the force who were paid hush money were Inspectors Corcoran, Stanton and Quincey and Sergeant Holt. I was told that the Chinese members of the Force who were paid hush money were Young Fat himself, also Detectives Tang Chung, Wong Pun Tak, Leung Shing, Mi Cheung, Chu Tsoi, Hu Hing, Cheang Mau, Chu Fung, Leung Kwai Chung, Yu Po, Chu Kwai Lam, Lo Cheung, Chung Muk Sing, and Chung