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Wang Joy Chew, recalled:-
The Chairman:- Is there a basement to your shop?
A. I want an interpreter.
Q. Is there a basement?
402 Atkinson:- No answer. You can't understand English?
A. No.
Q. You know what a basement is?
A. A basement?
The Chairman:- The shop's on the ground floor?
A. Ground floor, yes.
Q. Is there anything under the ground floor?
A. I can't quite understand. Excuse me.
Interpreter engaged.
The Chairman:- Is there a basement to his shop, ask the witness?
A. Yes, Sir.
Q. Is that what you describe as the godown?
A. The back part of the shop is the godown of it.
Q. The back part of the shop, that is what you call the godown?
A. Yes.
Mr. Atkinson:- The store room, does he mean?
A. The place for storing goods.
Mr. Hewett:- Is the floor of the godown on the same level as the floor of the shop, or is it lower down?
A. Yes.
Q. On the same level?
A. On the same level.
Mr. Chatham:- Was the Inspector's interpreter with him, when he came on the second occasion?
Mr. Sercombe Smith:- The occasion on which you say you gave Inspector Lee the $10? Was Inspector Lee accompanied by an interpreter?
A. No, Sir.