FOM CONFIDENTIAL.
My Lord,
RECEI
10 JUN 1940
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
27th May,
1940.
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With reference to previous correspondence resting
with Sir Geoffry Northcote's confidential (2) despatch of
19th April, 1940, regarding Chinese soldiers interned in
Hong Kong, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship with
regret that one interned soldier named Cheng Hop died on 13th
March, 1940, from injuries received in a brawl with another
interned soldier, Ng Kwai Wing.
2.
At 11.15 a.m. on the morning of 13th March Cheng
Hop was playing mah-jong with Ng Kwai Wing and two other
internees in one of the huts of the Argyle Street
internment camp. A quarrel arose and Cheng struck Ng who
defended himself for a short time and then ran out of the
hut. Soon after this Cheng collapsed and was taken to the
Kowloon Hospital in an ambulance, but on arrival he was
found to be dead. A post-mortem examination established
that the cause of death was rupture of the spleen, which
was enlarged to about seven times the normal size.
3.
Ng Kwai Wing was arrested the same day and charged
with murder, but after enquiries had been made the charge was
reduced to manslaughter.
The preliminary hearings were
taken by the Second Magistrate, Kowloon, who decided that
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD LLOYD OF DOLOBRAN,
&c.,
&C.
&C.,