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emergency.
After his transfer B.543 was dissatisfied therewith
blamed the Indian A.S.P. and asked for an interview with the a
Supt. He made complaint the day after his transfer and I
forwarded it at once.
I had not the slightest idea that anything like this would happen. B.543 was obviously dissatisfied and even asked to be dismissed, but as he had only 4 months more to do I dissuaded him.
To Jury:
A
*B.543 appeared otherwise normal. He wasn't bike
morbid but seemed father jolly, taking part in all the man's
games and sports. He didn't like being sent back to the N.T. Besides the 30 rounds that each man had, a large stock of
reserve ammunition was kept in one of the cells together with
one of the Thompson guns."
ad. C.S. Madgwick
P.7
sd. R.E.Lindsell
P.M.
3. Au Hun deod. *I was taken on as boy by last witness at
Lok Ma Chau Station on 1st July last.
About 5 p.m. on July 21st
last I was in our cook house which is the middle one of the 3
rooms in the servants' wing, 1st floor, when I heard a shot fired outside from somewhere near the flag staff.
window on that side in that room. 1 ran into the adjoining
I heard one more kitchen and looked out of the back window.
There was no
shot fired. I saw an Indian whom I knew by sight as one of the
I.P.C. in the Station.
He was going along the top of the
He had
slope towards the back of the Station and was near the small
pine tree about 20 feet from the corner of the Station. rifle which I saw him aim down the Station path and fire twice. I could not see down the path. The I.P.C. was dressed in
I didn't notice what he had
I heard no further
a white shirt and a pair of shorts.
on his head. I saw no other Indian there. The I.P.C. dis-
sappeared round the corner of the Station. shot. I ran out to the verandah in front of our quarters
overlooking the compound. I then heard two more shots from