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Statement taken in the Korloon
Hospital at 09,55 hours on 6-5.38.
Detective Office,
ater Police Statim,
Kowloon,
6th May, 1938.
CHENG SHU 17 years, Spinster,
Residing on Fishing Junk No.29111.W,
Native of Shaukiwan, Hong Kong,
States!-
I have been employed on the above junk as
a cook for over a year.
My mother, HO SHAP HUI lives in an unnumbered hut
on the sea front at Shankiwan. My father has been dead 7 years.
Two of my brothers, CHENG KUN YAU, 23, and
CHENG HUNG FUX 33, both were employed as fokis on the same junk.
There wore about 40 persons on our junk.
At about 09.00 hours on 3.5.38, the junk was off
MAN SHAN when a motor boat came from a Japanese warship. About
27 Japanese dressed in Khaki uniforms came on board and at once
commenced to tie all our hands behind our backs, after which they began to shoot everyone including six children who were on board. As the people were shot their bodies were thrown into the
hold. I saw three of our fokies named CHEUNG SHAP NG and
others whose names I do not know, jump into the water. I was both stabbed and shot, after which I fell to the deck. I was then
thrown into the hold. The Japanese poured kerosens over the junk
and set it on fire. When they had gone I went to the bow of the junk. I was accompanied by another woman named CHAN KUM MUI who had also been wounded and thrown into the hold. We were the only
left alive on board. There was a heap of corpses in the hold.
After the junk burned for a while, it began to
rain and this combined with sea water, I threw, put out the fire.
On the following day (4.5.38) CHAN KU MUI and