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I would get him a knife or a dagger. I asked him what he
wanted a daɛɛer for. He said he wanted to
Matima Hotel to look for Zung. I said "It is so late nows
"where can i get a dagger er knife" He asked me to
accompany him over, but I persuaded him not to. He said
that I only talked a lot but that when it came to action
I me afraid (Repented – a soward). I had ne further
conversation with him. Ho dismissed me when we get to
No.50. I waited for half an hour outside someone elsets
house to see if he carried out nim threat. This may have
happened on the 16th er 17th Marobs It may have been the
early morning of the 17th March,
That swae day in the afternoon we met again and he
told me he bad been ovoz te the Enthan Hotel. I asked him
if he had seen Fang or Lai Ming Fui. He said that, through
a faked telephone he got them out of their rom to anawez
the onll, "and pointing my finger at them, I said, I wagn
"you to beware, and then I left." He said that. (Q. Xext
conversation?) I cannot definitely remember whether it was
that night or early on the morning of the 19th March that
I asked him about the twe mon that he had mentioned that
he had fellows shadowing fung. He had mentioned that on a
previous occasion, on the occasion when he asked me for a
dagger. 1 asked him how he knew that Fung was stopping on
the 4th floor of the Hathan Hotel. In reply he said he
had man shadowing him and knew from them that Yung was
living on the 4th floor.
Un the subsequent occasion I asked how mach he was
paying the two men and if he could trust them. He said,
Witness here speaking in Cantonese) "If there are lotus
'seeds in sweet water
to it there will be money
*pay.*
Inter retex.
That is the translation.
I do not understand the maan ing.
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