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[2nd witness Lam Yau-tai.]
[3rd witness Fung Kam-shing.]
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196. What were you intending to use the sails for after you had lowered them? Are
you referring to just before the hitting or after?
197. After? After we were hit people on board climbed on to the sail after it was
lowered. We all hung on to the sail.
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[3rd witness Fung Kam-shing.]
227. Each of you owns one of them. Tell me the number of the one you owned? My
junk is 1822.
228. Chairman : Licensed in Hong Kong? At Aberdeen, Hong Kong.
229. Mr. Whyatt: And your father's junk-what is the number of that? 611.
230. And where was that licensed? Also at Aberdeen.
Did
198. You told me that before the submarine fired at you you lowered the sail.
you do anything else? After lowering the sail our boat was hit. 199. You did not do anything else after lowering the sail before you were hit-is that the answer? We did nothing else other than to hide ourselves by going into the holds-we were frightened.
200. After you were hit did anything happen to you personally? I was much injured
because of the broken pieces of wood shot at me as the result of the firing. 201. Chairman : Where did the shell strike your junk? Amidships-near the main
mast.
202. The splinters of wood hurt you where ? My hands and feet. The wounds I
received on my body have all healed.
203. Mr. Whyatt: Can you tell us roughly how many sailors there were on this
submarine at the time of the firing? More than 10-between 10 and 20. 204. Chairman : You told us that there were 10 to 20 on the bridge? Yes, in a
square enclosure.
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205. Mr. Whyatt to Commissioners: I think he means the conning tower. 206. Witness: I saw some 5 or 6 men working at the guns. 207. Chairman :
In addition? Yes, besides the 5 or 6 there were between 10 and 20 in the square enclosure.
208. Mr. Whyatt: What sort of sailors were these? I could not see very clearly. 209. Did you see how they were dressed? Not even that, I could not see how they
were dressed.
210. You have told us that after your junk sank you clung to the big sail? Yes. 211. Were you picked up the next day? Yes, we were saved by people from a junk. 212. Where did these people who picked you up take you to? Shaukiwan. 213. And when you got to Shaukiwan where did you go? I went to Lam Yung- shing's junk to stay there. I was badly wounded and could not move about very well.
214. Later where did you go? Later I went to hospital.
215. Do you remember the name of the hospital? At first I was sent by the Police Inspector to the Government Civil Hospital-it was on a Monday-and on Tues- day was transferred to the Tung Wah Hospital.
216. Chairman : Where were you born? I was born at sea in a junk, my parents
have not told me where.
217. Your cousin Lam Chu has told us he had a cannon on board? Yes. 218. Where was that kept? Inside at the bottom of the hold.
219. Did any of the junks which were fishing that day fire at the submarine? No,
sir, none.
(Witness left the witness box).
220. Third Witness. Fung Kam-shing, duly declared, states:—
221. Mr. Whyatt: How old are you, Fung Kam-shing? I am 24 years old.
222. Where were you born? In Aberdeen in the Colony of Hong Kong.
223. Do you remember where you were born in Aberdeen? On board a junk.
224. What was your father's name? Fung Hing-wo.
225. Does he own a junk? Yes, his junk and our junk made one pair.
226. Who is the owner of the two junks? I am the owner of my junk and he the
owner of his junk.
231. I understand you to say that you and your father fished as a pair? Yes. 232. Do you remember where you were fishing on 22nd September ? Somewhere
off the lighthouse at Chelong.
233. Could you see the lighthouse in the day time? No, not in the day time. 234. Could you see the light flashing at night time? Yes, we could see the light
at night.
235. On the morning of the 22nd September when you and your father were fishing off Chelong lighthouse, were there other junks fishing there too? So far as I could see four other junks.
236. That morning whilst you were fishing did you notice anything unusual? No, sir. 237. What time did you start fishing? At 7 a.m. we started fishing.
238. How long did you go on fishing? Up to about 9 a.m. when there was gunfire. 239. What was the next thing that you noticed after hearing the gunfire?
a submarine suddenly firing at us. 240. You heard gunfire-did you go on fishing after you had heard the gunfire?
No, after the gunfire I lowered the mainsail,
I saw
241. Why did you lower the mainsail? Because the submarine was firing at the
fishing craft and in case the junk should sink we could hold on to the mast. 242. When did you first see this submarine that you are telling us about, firing at the other fishing craft? It was between 8 and 9 a.m. when the submarine fired at some of the junks and later the submarine fired at us.
243. How far was it away when you first saw it? It was fairly close to us when I
first saw it,
244. Chairman;
away.
Can you give a better approximation?
Several hundreds of fathoms
245. Mr. Whyatt: When you first saw it, did you then recognize it as a submarine?
When she was so far away I knew then that she was a submarinę.
246. How did you know that this craft was a submarine? say that she was a submarine when I saw her in the distance because she was pointed at both ends.
247. Anything else that you can describe about her that made you think she was a submarine ? In the middle of the craft there was a thing like a castle and a staff and there was a gun at each end.
248. Later, you have told us, she fired at your junk? Yes. 249. About how far away was she when she fired at your junk?
close. I could see all the persons on board the ship.
She was then very
250. Would you describe to us the people whom you saw on board? The dress was this the top of the trousers was overlapping the shirt and there was a pocket and some straps forming the pointed end of the collar of the coat. 251. Chairman : That is the first time we have heard of a coat ? Not a coat, it
was like a shirt, like the interpreter's shirt; if he takes off his coat he will show a kind of garment and the end of that garment would be enclosed in the top of the
trousers.
252. Mr. Whyatt: Did you notice their physical appearance as far as their faces were concerned? I know they were human beings but I could not see their faces so clearly as to discern what nationality they were.
253. About how many were there? About 10.
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