CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919 — Page 428

Translation.

Precis.

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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 to 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 12.30 p.m. a launch came to the port side of the Gunboat. Twenty or thirty men with revolvers 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 Hon ourable Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

At 2.30 p.m.

I saw the Assistant to 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.