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LO WING, 37 years,
states:-
I am a foki employed on board Class 1V boat
No.3835L and reside on board.
At about 18.00 hours on the 11.9.40. the above
boat left AU TAU (Chinese Territory) for Tai Po, with
cargo of 14 piculs of ground nuts and 20 tins of wood oil.
value unknown.
2
Besides me, travelling on board are my master, 譚輝
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named NÒ TAM PAI, 55 years, a foki named HỒ HỒNG, 3 years,
and a passenger named NG LUN, 22 years.
At about 01.00 hours on the 12.9.40. when sailing
about a mile off SAM MUN KWAN, Chinese Waters (Long.114° 39' E. Lat. 22° 26' x.) two search lights were flashed on
our boat, and a little later a Japanese motor boat containing
about 20 Japanese sailors came alongside.
Five Japanese sailors boarded my boat and trans-
ferred the cargo to their boat, leaving several pieuls of
ground nuts behind.
They were on board about 15 minutes.
When they
They then left in the direction of BAM MUN KWAN.
were a few yards away, they machine gunned our boat, wounding
NG TAM FAI, 55 years, boat master, a native of TO TAU
Village, AU TAU District, (Chinese Territory) and NG HONG,
34 years, foki, a native of TO TAU Village,
District, (Chinese Territory).
AU TAU
We then sailed our boat to Tai Po. At about
11.30 hours on the same day, we met No.2 Launch in Tolo
Channel and reported the incident to the officer-in-charge.
It then tewed our boat to Tai Po. On arrival at Tai Po, the
two injured men were removed to Kowloon Hospital in an
ambulance.