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(5) FUNG HOP declared.
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I live in Tung Tau Village, but I have a lot of land
outside the Ma Tau Chung Camp. At 12 noon on that day, I left
the camp external quarters, where I had just been selling
chickens. I heard whistles blown and I saw a man climbing up
a fence. I think he was trying to get away. I saw a European
police officer and I heard guns. I was frightened and ran away.
(Sa.) Fung Hop, her mark,
Eric Himsworth,
4.1.40.
(6) HARRY EARNEST ROGERS sworn.
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I am supervisor of Ma Tau Chung Internment Camp for past
13 months. The camp contains 740 odd internees, who have been
inmates for the same period. Notices have been posted up warning
internees that they were likely to be killed if they attempt to
escape. These instructions are well known by internees and this
home
has been brought here to them when internees have been killed
on previous occasions as they attempted to escape.
entersthe
An
The police are instructed that if an internee
barbed wire, he will be shot if he continues to do so. internee is often repeatedly warned if he gets in the wire, and
If if he takes no notice of these warnings, he is fired upon.
he is successful in getting over the outer fence, the police
public also fire on him unless there is any danger to the police. escapes have been made and many have got away, but only a few have been wounded. Only on 23rd December 1939, a man made a
successful escape from the spot where the man was shot.
he been seen, he probably would have been shot.
man is LAU KWONG FUK.
(Sa.) H. E. Rogers,
It
Had
Many
The name of the
Eric Himsworth,
4.1.40.
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