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the Police Boat nearly every day and can easily recognize it,
in the distance, as it is the only motor boat in Deep Bay.
When I first sighted the Motor Boat, it was about 700 or
800 Chinese feet away.
Suspecting that the motor boat was Japanese, I started
to sail towards shallow water near SHA KIU, east of LAU FAU SHAN.
As soon as I commenced to turn, the motor boat started
to machine gun my junk, after passing some of the smaller junks.
I immediately instructed my crew to return the fire.
We opened fire with the 3 rifles from the stern of my junk. The
cannons were not used because the motor boat was too far away.
I fired one of the rifles.
There was a strong breeze which enabled my junk to sail
at a fast speed.
The motor boat followed me for about half an hour, but
did not come closer than 500 Chinese feet, and continued to fire
bursts of machine gun bullets at the junk. We fired between 70
and 80 rounds in return.
On approaching shallow water the motor boat ceased fire
and turned back towards the mouth of the Bay.
No one was injured on my junk. I did not examine the
whole of my junk afterwards to see if any of the bullets had struck it or not, but I believe all the rounds went high, one
scored the main mast.
The same evening, sometime after 22.00 hours, I again heard bursts of machine gun fire in the direction of NIM WAN. I have since heard that a Japanese motor boat fired at a junk
owned by PANG FAT, that was probably the firing I heard.
I returned to LAU FAU SHAN the following morning and the crews of the smaller junks informed me that the Japanese crew of the motor boat had gone alongside their junks, also that the Japanese had raped a woman and stole some money from
them.
I do not know these people. They belong to Chinese territory. I cannot find them again.
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