Enclosure 1.
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A
leo 7 MAY 00
COPY.
Water Police Station.
2nd. April, 1900.
Sir,
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I beg to report the following particulars
for your information,
Fan Tat Shang, master of steam-launch Chang
Sha, HongKong License, reports that he left Wuchow at 11a.m. 12.m.
on the 1st. instant with a crew of 13 men, towing the lighter
Sai Wo loaded with cargo and one passenger for HongKong
and at 9.30p. .m. when at A Cheuk Mi, near Shek Ei, Heung Shan
District, about 80 men fired from both banks of the river
at the launch and the lighter, killing the pilot named
Yeung Ha, 50 years of age and wounding 3 men on the launch
and 2 on the lighter. The launch was stopped and after
firing a few volleys, the robbers boarded her and the lighter
and searched every one, taking away money, jewellery and
clothing, value over $1,000, also the launches licence,
Bermit and customs papers, before leaving the pirates told
them to tell their master that they were the Hop I. Tong
and Lung Fung Tong men and the master had better pay
them