Copy.
Enclosure No.2.
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Tsui Hi, Driver of Down Mixed train on the 24th October 1937
states:-
The train consisted of engine, water-wagon, 12 wagons
and 2 passenger coaches. We left Tai Sha Tou at 7.05 a.m.
25 minutes late, owing to shunting operations. The two
coaches, which were marshalled in the rear of the train, were
both British Section coaches. One wagon belonging to the
Canton-Hankow Railway which contained oil was detached at Sien
Tsun owing to a hot-box. Three 15-ton wagons were cut off
on arrival at Shum Chun.
Of the 12 wagons, 7 were British
Section wagons, 1 was Canton-Hankow Railway, and 4 Chinese
We arrived at Sheklung at 8.29 a.m., 30 minutes
Section.
late.
We departed from Sheklung at 8.37 a.m. and arrived at
Nam Sheh at 8.49 a.m. I was at the north outer signal at Nam
Sheh when I first saw the Japanese planes. 4 planes were
flying south from the direction of Sheklung and another 4 from
Cheung Muk Tou; they were flying very high. I could not
distinguish whether they were land planes or water planes.
Directly I saw the planes, I opened full steam towards the
station. I stopped there and went down to the field with
the firemen. All the passengers also ran into the fields.
I was then about 500 feet from the train. The 4 planes
flying south flew past the train and together with the 4
flying north, they returned to Nain Sheh at a very high altitude.
We realised that they would drop bombs and ran further away,
about 400 yards, and from there watched the train. 3 bombs
were then dropped south of the engine and another 3 in the
rear of the train. The 3 bombs which were dropped south of
the train landed several hundred feet away, and the 3 dropped
in the rear landed on the top of the cutting near the station
on the right-hand side. My train was on the main lines
After the planes had gone, I and my firemen returned to the