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COPY.
Detective Office,
Central Station,
6th August, 1919.
Ernest James Field, states:-
At about 9.45 p.m. on the 3rd August, 1919,
I was notified by the Sergeant on Charge Room duty that there was some trouble at the King Edward Hotel; in consequence I at once proceeded and was instructed to call in the Coronet Theatre for the help of L.S. a64 Phillips. On arrival at the Hotel I entered by the front entrance; I noticed that the place was in disorder and 2 British soldiers were behind the bar. I saw one was bleeding from a wound on the head. At the same time I heard whistles blow-
-ing in Ice House Street. I went out to see what was the matter. I saw a Chinese Constable chasing a European. I gave chase; the manran up Ice House Street and along the Proya; some one shouted to the man to jump in the harbour, which he did and tried to get to
a sampan which was lying about 20 yards from the sea-wall, thinking the man could swim and that he would get to the sampan and escape. I sent a Chinese Constable to call the Fire Float sampan; before this arrived I as the man sink and was drowning; I then dived into the Harbour and came up underneath the man and got him to the sampan, and when in the act of getting him on to the sampan he, the man, struck me in the face and knocked me into the water, him- -self falling in again. I got hold of him again; by this time he was unconscious. With the help of one man from the Firo Float he was got on to the smpan again and I took him to the Statue Tharf
Taylor where he was attended to by a L.S. al51/ani L.S. a80 Munro, and after I took him to the Station. In saving this man my white suit was damaged having the knee torn out.
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I have etc.,
(Sd.) E. J. Field,
L. S. a22.