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Hunghom Police Station,
12th December, 1898.
251
I have the honour to report for your information, with reference to the attached report of Piracy. That on the 10th instant at 9.20 p.m. Lo Tak Fat, master of fishing junk No.5669 H. reported to me at this station that his junk had been pirated in Chinese waters, and several of his crew killed and wounded. I at once telephoned to Tsun Sha Tsui Police Station for a launch to remove the wounded to Hospital. I then went on board the junk where I found things generally as he had reported.
No.3 Police Launch (with Inspector Kemp and Sergeant Gourlay on board) arrived soon after and removed the dead bodies to the public mortuary and the wounded men to the Government Civil Hospital.
I inspected the junk on the morning of the 11th instant. I found eight bullet holes in the woodwork; these bullets had all been fired in from the starboard side and stern. I also saw four or five blackened spots on the deck where powder had ...
[To be addressed to:] Honourable F.H.May, C.M.G.
Captain Superintendent of Police.