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There was a struggle and we picked him up again. We carried
on and eventually we reached the mouth of the tunnel. I sent
for a rope or a ladder. We got across the water and a rope
was let down and the Chinese was hauled up. I told them to
take him to the Guard Room but later when I got out of the
nullah I found four or five people working to restore him on
the roadway in barracks. Pte. Burgess was one of them. Then I
saw an ambulance come up and the Chinese was put into it.
X X. Mr. Lim. I did not apply artificial respiration myself.
At first the artificial respiration was not a success but later
some one came and brought him round. I could not say if water
came out of his nose.
2.58.
sd. Leslie Frederick Gaywood.
sd. E.W. Hamilton, P.M., 8/8/34.
Thomas Mc Carthy, sworn, ds:- I am a private soldier in the
South Wales Borderers stationed at Murray Barracks. I was
in company with rte. Simmons on 22nd June afternoon when we
both went down the tunnel. We assisted to take a Chinese out
of the tunnel. It was the man in the dock.
When we were
In the
getting him out of the tunnel there was a struggle.
course of the struggle he caught hold of my penis. I had to
twist his wrist to release myself. I did not make an offi cial
report of the injury.
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X X. Mr. Lim.
Deft was being carried face downwards when it
happened.
sd. T. Mc Carthy.
sd. E. W. Hamilton, P.M., 8/8.
Albert Edward Burgess, sw orn,
ds:
I am a private soldier
in the South Wales Borderers stationed at Murray Barracks.
I remember a Chinese male being taken out of the nullah on
the 22nd of June
He was unconscious
about 3 to 3.30 p.m. in Murray Barracks.
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very limp with a cut at the back of his