CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6] — Page 295

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Petitioner, Sun Sik Cheung, Captain of the Gunboat Kwang Lei begs to submit to the Honourable Secretary for Chinese Affairs and Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs that on the 16th

January at 1.30 p.m. when he came as far as Iu Wa Street from Sui Wa Fong, Chan Yuen Hang, First Engineer, and Yu Kam Ping, sailor, came up and reported that at 12.30 p.m. a launch came to the port side of the Gunboat. Twenty or 30 men with revol- vers went on board the gunboat, cut apart the cable, and had the gunboat towed away in a westward direction from the Typhoon Refuge, Wongkok. On this report petitioner went at once to the Naval Office and the Harbour Office to report, but I was referred to the Honourable Secretary for Chinese Affairs. At 2.30 p.m. I saw the Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs

who at once asked the Water Police to send a launch to arrest it. On the 17th 12 noon, the 2nd. Engineer of the gunboat stole back from Canton and reported that the gunboat did not leave Kap-sui-mun until 7 p.m. on the 16th.

Dated 18th January, 1919.