CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6] — Page 297

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Captain Sun at No. 15 Iu Ta Street, 2nd. floor.

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I am a Tukiennese: about 20 men, armed, came on

others board the Kwong Lee and there were arders on the launch toving

us.

All seemed to talk Cantonese. The three in foreign dress seemed to be officers.

Before the piracy, we had something over 20 men

in all on board - stokers and sailors, and a "military party" of 10, in addition to the 11 soldiers looked after by Nos. 2 & 3 - 11 includes Nos. 2 & 3. I don't know just how many stokers and sailors. We had no steam on the boilers.

I heard or saw nothing of any Police Launch, or

of anything of the nature. I did hear some one say "Don't use your gun: if you do, I will use mine". That was said from our deck in Cantonese. The word used for gun was "Pan".

I saw the launch which towed us: on escaping I saw its name the "Pun Yu" (# ). I know it as a Canton Police Launch: I have no doubt about it. It is an armed launch, of the Canton Police Department, (Water Police).

Of the persons on board just before the time of

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11 were Yunnan soldiers, wounded men.

6 or 7 were Fukkien men -

the remainder were Cantonese.

The "pirates" wore no uniform: ordinary Cantonese clothing. We do not know where it was we boarded the firewood junk; and we do not know the number or name of the punk. It took us to the Mongkok Refuge. I had no reason to think any of our men had been tempered with. I saw none of them after the robbers arrived.

The soldiers who came back with us are on board the Kung Kung - a 2 funnelled boat in the Refuge. We do not know where the Kwong Li le now.

Captain