China currency, the latter being mostly in 500 dollar notes. The ammunition and rifles had been buried in various cocles; tile money vas found hidden under a bed.
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B.M.E. PHART reported that she had taken or board all the men of the village, numbering mine, and that she was particularly suspicious of the one under whose bed the money had been found, because (a) he was a superior class of Chinese to the reminder, who were caparortly fisterner, and farmers, CLA (b) De could give no satisfuctory explanation for the presence of the Grauition and noner The slip vas ordered by the Collodore-in-Charge, HON KOLO, to return the money but to det. in WONG JHUN (the suspicious character) for interrogation 1A MORG ONG. This orẻ r. it should be added, was given before instructins vere received that :o 1mins were to be ide by anti-piracy patrols on Chinese territory without prior permission of the Chinese authorities.
At his interrogation in HO KOT on October 26th, WONG CIR, stated that le mes a mutive of the MI MOI district of K LACTU! province, had come to CILJUG SE U Island before the war, old had been sent by the Japanese, after the occupation, to CRT LADRON Island to work as a farmer, which, he claimed, vas his present occupation. VORG CHUY sulied the following inforntion with regard to CRM.T LADRONI Island:-
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(0) The LADROK3 were not much bothered durin· the Occupation by the Japanese, who paid only occasional visits. or about ay 27th, 1945, a part of armed Japanese landed on LITTLE 1. DROME Island and loobed the p1 ce corpletely.
They arrived in a large ocean-going junk and vere reported to be very Vell armed.
(b) On or about September 10th, 1945, the same junk reached CHRALT LADRO Island. Ite copienent consisted of 7 Japanese and 3 olo Chinese. On sighting the funk the entire population of the isl ma took to the hills. and the bulk of it later mover across to Le opposite side of the island.
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(c) On or about September 26th, a detuoluent from the Royal Navy landed nd seized host of the arms and 1 uition held by he Japanese. The latter took to the Mills, but the next day tley were tracked down and an action exqued in which 2 Japanese and 2 mollo Chinese tere killed. Of the full ander, 1 Jaynnoce comitted suicide, 2 Japanese were missin,, and 2 Japanese and the surviving Mollo Chinese succeeded in ego: ping to a neighbouring island.
(a) The May 1 detachment then requested the villagers to make a thorowl search for crns etc. in the bills. This was done, mim as a result one cannon (sic) with arrunition and a number of grenades were Bonded over to the Royal Navy. Tile searchers also unearthed two rifles and a quantity of air unition, but by the unaninous consent of the leading villagers these were retained as protection against possible piratical raids, from which the island had suffered in the "ast.
(e) The two rifles and am unition were found in WOWO CHP's house in the course of the search of te village conducted by the armed party from 1.1.S. W W on October 21st, and Wom CII explained the circunsti mees under which they vere acquired. So far as he knew there were no giratos anong the nemulation of CROAT LADRONE I91a14a •