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inner staircase. I saw him go up the outer stairs. on alarms
it was the duty of the Station Guard to lock all gates and
grilles of which he had the keys and to fall in in the Charge
Room. None of us fell in in the charge Room, but from our
barrack room we could see the Charge Room door.
It was my
duty, had I been off duty at the time of an alarm, to take the
Lewis Gun up to the top front verandah. I was one of the Lewis
Gun team of four at Lok Ma chau, the others being 2.Cs. B.315,
B.9 and B.4.*
To Jury X X "As Station Guard I had no other special instruct-
ions as to how to act in an emergency. I was not instructed to,
nor did I blow, my whistle. I knew at 4 p.m. that both Sergts
were out. In their absence 1.8.B.349 was in command at the
Station, P.S.B.136 being down at the married quarters.
switching on the alarm 1 did not immediately report to L.S.B.349.
After
I first went back to the back door. When I roused him, he took
charge and we obeyed his orders. It was on his order that
I telephoned to Taipo, and after I had failed to make myself
understood, he went and telephoned himself. He telephoned
12-15 minutes after 5 p.m. In the barrack room shots were
fired out of all the windows, on the L. Sergt's instructions.
I told latter that B.9 was lying wounded in the compound.
I locked the corner door of the barrack room and the back door
of the Station. When I went out at 6.30 p.m. and saw B .9 in
the alleyway, he was still alive. I gave him some water and
left him lying there. He did not speak. My revolver was an
ordinary police revolver (.38). I have no idea how long it
takes me to reload it. I carried my rounds of ammunition loose
in my pouch. As Station Guard I carried the keys of (a) the
outer fence gates (b) the grille between the passage and the
back compound and (c) the front verandah grille. I looked
both those grilles. I can offer no explanation of B.543's
action. When I saw him shoot at the Sergeant, no reason