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Gun Battle in Deep Bay.
9.8.P./K
Hon. C.P.
Police Headquarters, Kowloon. Date: 8th February, 1947.
On 6/2/47 at approx. 1200 hours, Junk No. 9326A, Macau licensed and also licensed by Macau to carry cannon and rifles entered the mouth of Deep Bay.
The master stated that this was his first visit to British waters for some considerable time.
Market.
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The junk was loaded with fish destined for Un Long
At 1230 hours, the master sent six junk fokis, all unarmed, with a sampan load of fish with instructions to proceed up Un Long Creek, to the market. When the sampan wan about 400 yards distant from the junk, a second sampan fitted with a sail and cover over the rear portion approached and the occupants shouted out to the Junk sampan crew, ordering them to come alongside and give them some fish.
The junk sampan immediately turned about and rowed back towards the junk pursued by the second sampan which then opened fire.
The brother of the junk master immediately returned the fire with a rifle from the junk to cover the retreat of his sampan, which eventually reached the junk in safety with no injury to the crew.
3.
A running battle between the junk and the sampan continued for approximate two hours, during which the junk was heavily machine-gunned from the sampan.
Eventually the junk master decided that matters had gone far enough and fired a cannon ball at the sampan which missed by 400 yards but apparently terrified the occupants the sampan who immediately surrendered.
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The junk master sent a sampan to take the other boat in tow, and going aboard, they found two dead men in Po on Peace Preservation Corps uniform, two further uninjured men in uniform, and two fishermen, one of whom was wounded.
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They also found a second sampan tied alongside. occupants of one sampan stated that the four uniformed men had seized their sampan and compelled them to row out into Deep Bay, where they had robbed a second sampan and were about to do a third robbery when the big junk intervened.
5.
Unfortunately the junk master released one sampan and
crew who sailed away and cannot be located.
He then took the other sampan in tow and sailed to Lau Fau Shan where he went ashore and reported at Ping Shan Police Station.
6.
Palice found two dead Po On Peace Preservation Corps guards on board with a Japanese Bren gun, a rifle mortar, two rifles, a mortar shell and a quantity of ammunition.
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The two surviving guards who belonged to No. 1 Troop, Kwangtung Peace Preservation Corps stationed at Sha Tsui near
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