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The revenue derived from various sources is about $200 per month; the money is kept in the Police Station safe until paid in to the Bank for the Treasury at headquarters (Hongkong).
There is no telephonic or telegraphic comuni cation with other places. There is a daily Steam-ferry Service, however, between the Island and Hongkong the passage taking about one hour and a half.
On the 19 of August, 1912, at about 9.45 p.m. a piratical raid was made by a body of Chinese, estimated to number between forty and fifty, on the Island.
This band which was armed with rifles and pistols sailed
to the island in a large junk and landed in their small boats on the Rasterly side of the narrow strip of ground by which the two ends of the Island are divided.
They immediately swarmed dom the main street and, approaching the Police Station, same burst open the door of the "quarters* and ran through to the front; others came round to vie front by both sides and on being challenged by an Indien ¡oliceman who was a few yards up on the pier shot nim dead.
I'wo other Indian Policemen were shot dead under circumstances which will be detailed lator: the uropean Sergeant and the 4th. Indian Policeman escaped: the pirates took possession of the arms at the Police Charge Room, ransacked the Station and a Pambroker's shop and after thus "holding up" the place for rather over two nours, took a Covernment launch which they uvilized to tow away their junk and made off to wherver they came from somee -muere outside British Terri bay.
For the purpose of this enquiry further details of the abtack need not be now entered into.
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The enquiries lade by the Committee.
Your Committee visited the Island on, the 14th.
instant and spent some two hours examining the Station and places concerned in this matter. Sergeant Boulger who was stationed on the Island at the time of the affray was present as was also the
Captain