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935. Did you notice any other colours or markings on this vessel besides this blue-
grey colour? No, I did not.
936. Did you not notice some sort of structure amidships? Yes, a sort of castle. 937. Did you notice any markings on that? No, I did not notice.
938. Or any flag? I did not see any flag-no flag.
939. Chairman: Do you mean you did not see a flag, or there was not one? I did
not see a flag.
940. Mr. Whyatt: Did you see any sailors on board? I saw some figures-I could
not see very clearly how many. 941. What were they doing? They were working on a gun and also a machine gun. 942. What sort of sailors were they? I cannot say: I could not see so well as to
distinguish them.
943. Were they tall or short men? I could not see the whole of the figures; I
could only see down to the chest.
944. Are you speaking of the sailors who were in this little castle? Yes, that is so. were at the 945. Were there any sailors working these guns which you have told us
stern and bow? I saw nobody at the guns.
946. What did the submarine do? It sank our boat.
947. Chairman: How many shots were fired at your junk? Two shots. 948. Mr. Whyatt: Where were you when the shots hit your junk?
hold when my junk was shot at.
I was in the
949. Why were you in the hold? Because when I saw the submarine turn to fire at
us I went down to the hold.
950. Because you thought it was safer? I was under the impression that if I was
behind some wooden hulk I would be safer.
951. What happened to the rest of the people on board your junk-where did they
go to? They all went down into the hold.
Yes, the first shot hurt someone-two of the members of the crew were wounded as a result of the first shot.
952. When the first shot was fired was anyone hurt?
953. As a result of the second shot was anyone hurt? Nobody was hurt by the
second shot.
954. Was anyone killed as a result of the second shot? No, nobody was injured. 955. Did you have someone on board called Lam Wah-mui? Yes.
956. What happened to her? Lam Wah-mui was killed when she was hanging on
to the sail and was afloat.
957. After these two shots were fired what happened to your junk? It sank.
958. What did you and the rest of the people on board do when your junk sank? We
hung on to the mainsail.
959. Did you have a sampan on board your junk? Yes.
960. What happened to the sampan when your junk sank? The sampan was tied on to
the sail.
961. How many were there in the sampan? Twelve.
962. And how many were on the sail? More than to were hanging on to the mainsail--
about 17 were on the mainsail.
963. Chairman : 29 on board altogether? More than that-31 in all.
964. Where were the other two? Two of them were actually killed on the junk before
she sank.
965. Mr. Whyatt: Can you give me the names of those two killed? Lam Wah-mui
and Lam Yee-so.
966. Lam Wah-mui is a girl? Yes.
967. How old? 18 years old.
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968. What was she doing on board? She was sitting down.
969. What was her job-what were her duties? She did nothing on board: she merely
stayed there.
970. Lam Yee-so is also a female? Also a female.
971. How old was she? 27 years.
972. Any relation of yours? Wife of my nephew.
973. Your nephew was on board too? No, not on board.
974. When were these two killed what was it that killed them? The first shot killed
these two,
975. We have got to the position where your junk has sunk and there are 12 people in the sampan and 17 people on the big sail. The sampan and big sail are tied up together? Yes.
976. How many of these 29 people were children? 8 children.
977. What was the age of the youngest of these 8 children? 2 years old. 978. And what was the age of the eldest of these 8 children? 10. 979. And how many women were there? 5.
980. Chairman: That is excluding the two who had been killed by the first shot? Ex-
cluding the two who had been killed on board.
981. Mr. Whyatt: What was the next thing that happened after you 29 people got into the sampan and on to the big sail? When we were afloat this submarine came back and shot at us with a machine gun.
982. From whereabouts on the submarine was the machine gun being fired? The
machine gun was on the castle of this submarine.
983. You told us that you saw sailors from the chest upwards, as you described it; was
that when they were firing this machine gun? Yes.
984. Why do you say it was a machine gun that was being fired at you? Because I
could tell by the noise-Ta-ta-ta-ta.
985. What happened as a result of the machine gun being fired at these people on the
sail and the sampan? Those who were in the sampan, nine of them, were killed. 986. Could you remember the names of those who were killed? Yes. 987. Just tell me their names and their ages: 988. Males:
Ng Tak-sau
Ng Tai-so
Ng Ah-ming
Ng Ah-tuen
989. Females: Fan Kam-mui
Ng Yuet-ho
Ng Ah-yat
Ng Ngau-mui
Ng Ah-tsoi
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990. Apart from those who were killed were any of the others wounded as a result of
this machine gun firing? My wife was wounded but not killed.
991. What is the name of your wife? Chan Kwai-kam.
992. Whereabouts was she wounded? Her right knee was wounded.
993. Do you know where she is today? In the Queen Mary Hospital.
994. Have you seen her since she has been in the Queen Mary Hospital? Yes, only
the day before yesterday I saw her there.
995. After the submarine had fired at you with its machine gun, did you see where it
went to? She sailed away, I could not say where.
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