彭錦釗
COPY.
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PANG KAM CHIU, 37 years, Coxswain of Steam Launch
廣興
#1 $ $$
KWONG HING, 959 Canton Road 2nd floor, of SAN CHO Village,
PUN U, states:-
I am coxswain of Steam Launch KWONG HING and
I have on board a crew of seven.
At 10.00 hours on 20.1.40 the KWONG HING left
坪洲
Shaukiwan for PENG CHAU and arrived at 15.00 hours. I
left PENG CHAU on the return journey to Shaukiwan at 12.00
The Trad-
hours on 21.1.40 towing a Trading junk No. T1703H.
ing Junk had a cargo of chickens, ducks, pigs and earthenware.
When sailing past FUNG BAY at 15.15 hours I saw
a trawler come from the south. When the trawler came
nearer I saw it was Japanese and painted grey and had two
masts and one funnel and was flying a Japanese Mercantile
Flag at the stern. The Japanese shouted to me but I could
not understand their dialect. They waved their hands
indicating that I should stop, so I stopped the launch.
The trawler came alongside on my port side. I then saw
楊 the characters on the stern of the trawler YEUNG MUI MARU.
My launch was then approximately 4 mile to East of the
mouth of the bay.
Three were
Four Japanese boarded my launch.
dressed in khaki uniform and they were armed with two
rifles with bayonets affixed and one revolver. The
other was dressed in blue uniform but was not armed. The
Japanese in blue uniform wrote characters on a piece of paper
PJ
saying that I was to sail my launch to SAM MUN KWAN. I
wrote characters saying that I refused to go. Ropes were
brought from the trawler by the Japanese but my fokies and
myself refused to tie them. Whereupon the Japanese struck
myself and three of my fokies with batons, which they took
from their hip pockets. I received one blow on my head and
one on my buttock. My fokies were struck on their heads