COPY.
208
Detective Office,
Water Police Station.
PANG KAM CHIU, 37 years,
Coxswain of Steam Launch KWONG HING,
Residing at 959, Canton Road, 2nd Floor,
Born at SAN CHO Village, PUN U.
Further states:-
I have been coxswain of Steam Launch KWONG HING
for two years.
On 21.1.40 my launch left PENG CHAU at 12.00 hours
From PENG CHAU to
for Shaukiwan towing junk No. T.1703H. Shauki wan there is no need for my launch to leave British Waters. I always take a course from PENG CHAU to Shaukiwan by sailing round about 2 miles on the West side of SHEK NGAU CHAU, then straight down the coast to FUNG HEAD across the mouth of FUNG BAY towards Conic Island.
When my launch was steaming past FUNG BAY I saw a Japanese trawler stealing in my direction about one mile to the south of Conic Island. The trawler was flying a
When the trawler was Japanese Naval flag at its stern.
about 100 feet away the Japanese waved their hands indicating that I should stop. I stopped the engines and the trawler came alongside the starboard side of the Steam Launch KWONG HING my position there was approximately 4 mile north east of Conic Island. The name on the trawler was YEUNG MUI MARU.
Three were Four Japanese boarded my launch.
dressed in Khaki uniform and were armed with two rifles with
bayonets affixed and one revolver.
in blue uniform and was unarmed.
The fourth was dressed
The Japanese in blue
uniform wrote characters which read sail your junk to SAM MUN KWAN. I wrote characters refusing where upon the Japanese armed with the revolver took from his hip pocket a baton and struck me on my buttock and my head.
He also
struck one of my fokis YUEN KONG with the baton on his