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Honourable Commissioner f Police.
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2.
I attach copies of the further stateients I have
taken from the witnesses Cheung Yau-lei, Cheung Kan and
Cheung Kwai. From the statements already taken in the Colonial Secretary's Office file it would appear that only
the six people I asked for in my minute of 4th love:ber, 1938,
at the beginning of these papers could give any help in
describing the attacking vessel. The Divisi nal Inspector
(Suth) has telephoned me and said that he will try and get
hold of (heung Yau-tai and Chau Pak-hei;
3.
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الله خیر
Can any of the Police, or many of thea, say whether
the attached statements and sketches that I have recently
taken correspond at all, and if so how auch, with any craft
or vessels, Japanese or otherwise, observed by then or
reported in the neighbourhood in the past? I would be
grateful for as det:iled replies, if any, as may be.
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The alleged vessel seems to have been a smallish one, cf.
Cheung Kwai's statement that he stepped up on to it froa
his saran, and it would ap ear certainly not to have been
strictly speaking a vessel of the Imperial Japanese Navy;
the descriptions given so far however night fit in with a
small trawler on their Reserve or with some kind of
Auxiliary Vessel, as they I believe fly the Mercantile Flag
as described by the witnesses and not the Imperial Navy's
Rising Sun Flag.
4. I suppose there can be no chance of getting in
touch with Lintin or finding there any of the people of the
strange sa pan that heung Kwui renti ned in his statement (7.2 of (1)1 in the C.5.0. file), for they could doubtless
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