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down the centre.
Two large mobs were collected, one North
The
and One South of the nullah in parallel street to the Lai
Chi Kok Road, viz Tai Nam Street. We advanced on them but
they retreated and pelted us with stones from a safe distance,
I then fired three warning rounds but these proving ineffec-
tive I aimed at a rioter who was stoning us. He fell and the
crowd on the South side retreated. The bombardment continued
from the North side so I fired a final round which hit one of
the rioters in the arm and he was picked up later in a shop
close by. The crowd on the North side of Nam Cheung Street
then retired also. I returned to Lai Chi Kok Road and was
there informed that a Japanese family living about a mile out
of Kowloon City at a village called PO KONG had been murdered
in a most revolting manner by a large mob which had made its
way out there after minor rioting in Kowloon City District at
8.30 p.m. I thereupon proceeded to Kowloon City. It would
appearthat a Police patrol of four men who were sent out on
the village patrol were held up by this mob on their way to
Po Kong and sent back for help. On arrival of reinforcements
from Kowloon City Police Station Police advanced on Po Kong
and drove the crowd off only to find that six out of a family
of eleven Japanese had been either murdered or so brutally
assaulted that they died shortly after admission to hospital.
Two had escaped uninjured by taking refuge in the adjoining
house. Tsang Foo Villas, the scene of the crime, consisted
of three semi detached houses, two European style dwelling
houses and a temple. The rioters had got into the first house
which was occupied by a Japanese Model Gardener "Yamashita"
by name and his family before the latter could barricade their
doors. The doors were stout and would have resisted attack
had the occupants been inside as did the doors of the adjoin-
ing house occupied by Chinese which the mob failed to break
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