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to rush the Station. I couldn't see or hear anything. I now
determined to send for help. I sent off the I.r.8. to Sheung
Shui, and crept myself along the wall to the gate of the compound,
put my head round the corner and looked in. I then saw P.C.B.9
lying wounded in the centre of the compound.
to me twice "Sahib, sahib". I was just going to him when I saw
P.C.B.543 on my back verandah, or rather just inside the passage
He was running through from the back to the front verandah.
stooping over the Lewis Gun
He saw me and called
apparently trying to get it into
position on its two legs. I saw him train the gun on me. 1 fired
one shot at him from my rifle. He picked up his rifle and fired
back at me. In the next 10 minutes we exchanged shots. 1 fired
I didn't about 7 shots, dodging back behind the wall after each.
hear the Lewis gun fired. As my ammunition was running short,
I retired to married quarters. During the time we were sniping
each other. I called my wife loudly by name several times, but
got no answer. There were 3 automatic guns in the station, two
Thompson and the said Lewis. The Lewis gun was always kept in
the Charge Room, together with 3 pans of ammunition, ready for
emergencies. My four Lewis gunners were P.C■. B.722, 315, 9 B.543 had volunteered a month before to learn to use the gun, and
had received a certain amount of instruction.
He had not,
Before they
however, passed any test. I got back to the married quarters
somewhere about 5.30 or 5.45 p.m. and waited for assistance.
Soon afterwards S.I. O'Connor, A.S.I. MoEwen and other officers
arrived. They crawled up the hillside under cover.
arrived and when they must have been on the road below I heard
what sounded like a burst of 8 or 10 rounds of machine gun fire
from the direction of the station. I signalled to the party to
extend and ran down to the road to meet them. The A.3.2., N.T.,
had arrived. It was now about 6 p.m. On the A.S.P.'s instruction
I rode with him to Au Tau Police Station and attempted to get the
I then returned to Lok Ma Chau. D.S.P., K., by telephone.
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