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[19th witness
Thomas Gillison Mackay.]
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[20th witness Graham Scudamore Percival Heywood.]
:
1324. Mr. Whyatt Sergeant Mackay also took photographs of the junk itself, if you
would like to have them put in, sir.
1325. Chairman:
It is difficult to say at the moment-I don't wish to overload the Report with these photographs-on the other hand it does give an impression of the formidable size of this craft-it might be illuminating.
1326. (Photograph of Junk No. 28 handed to Chairman-[T.G.M.4-])
1327. And you have also taken photographs of the bullet which we have been looking
at? Yes.
1328. Unfortunately they are not ready? No.
1329. Will you let us have them as soon as you can? Yes.
1330. Chairman: That is the bullet which was produced by Dr. Court?
1331. Mr. Whyatt: Yes, sir,
1332. Chairman: Taken from the knee of the wife of Ng Ying-kit?
1333. Mr. Whyatt: That is correct, sir. [Exs. T.G.M. 5 and T.G.M. 6.]
1334. Chairman: We may Hope to get them to-morrow?
1335. Witness: Yes, sir, I hope to let you have them by then.
1336. Chairman: There would be no need for you to bring them yourself, Sergeant
Mackay, if you will just let us have them.
(Witess left the witness box.)
1337. Twentieth Witness, Graham Scudamore Percival Heywood, duly sworn, states:→→→ 1338. Mr. Whyatt: You are the Assistant Director of the Royal Observatory? Yes. 1339. Is it the practice of the Observatory to compile weather maps daily ? Yes, twice
daily-morning and afternoon. 1340. And from what data are these maps compiled? Mostly from reports from land stations all over the Far East, and from a certain number of ships' reports received by wireless.
1341. From your experience can you say whether these weather maps are for the most
part accurate? They give the situation at the time.
1342. Subsequently you get further information after compiling your maps? Yes. 1343. Do you find more often than not that the subsequent information is corroborative?
Yes.
1344. Have you brought with you to-day certain weather maps covering the period from
21st September to 27th September? Yes, I have the originals here.
1345. Do these weather maps show the sort of weather that was prevailing in the vicinity of Chelong lighthouse between those dates? Yes, one can deduce it from these weather maps.
1346. Tell us in general terms what sort of weather was prevailing on 21st to 27th in that part of the world. Moderate east and north-east winds throughout the period, except on the 27th when the wind was a light westerly breeze or varying. Weather was fair and fine, visibility was good and it is unlikely that any strong winds were experienced near Chelong Point during that period.
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1347. When you say "moderate east and north-east winds-was that what you said?
Yes.
1348. Can you give me some idea what you mean by a moderate wind? A moderate wind is defined as from 13 to 18 miles per hour-nothing exceeding 20 miles— you would not expect anything to exceed 20 miles an hour and be called
"moderate".
1349. After compiling that weather map did you subsequently received information from ships as to the weather in that vicinity? We received a number of meteorological logs from ships plying between Hong Kong and coast ports.
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[20th witness Graham
Scudamore Percival Heywood.] [21st witness Fung Chan-ho.]
1350. Have you tabulated them? We have them tabulated-all reports corroborate that there were at that time easterly and north-easterly winds, wind not exceeding 18 miles an hour, and the weather in every case was fair or fine except on the morning of the 21st when it was cloudy; after that it was fair or fine throughout the period, according to these ships.
1351. Do these ships' reports tell you what sort of sea there was?
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Hosang "-September 25th-report is ** sea slight ". The 27th reports sea smooth ".
In one of them the
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on the
1352. And in the sort of weather you have told us about you would expect to have
a slight or smooth sea throughout that period? Yes.
(Witness left the witness box.)
1353. Twenty-first Witness. Fung Chan-ho, duly declared, states:-
1354. Mr. Whyatt: How old are you? 36.
1355. What are you by occupation? Fisherman.
1356. And in September of this year were you employed as a fisherman on board Junk
No. 1822? Yes.
1357. I think you are a native of Macao? Yes.
1358. Were you on board that junk on 22nd September this year when she was off Che-
long lighthouse? Yes.
1359. Was your junk fishing that morning? Yes.
1360. Did you notice anything unusual? I saw in the distance a pair of junks that were
hit.
1361. What were they hit by? Guns.
1362. What happened after the guns had hit the first pair of junks? We then lowered
all sails.
1363. What happened to your junk? People on, board were frightened and went to the
hold.
1364. And eventually what happened? hold the junk went down.
A gun shot at us too, and as we were in the
1365. What did you people on board do when the junk went down? We came on to the deck and cut off the entanglements which fastened the mainsail to the mast, and then we tied the sails together.
1366. And then what did you do? Then we were floating on the sea.
1367. When you say you were floating do you mean all the people who were on board
who went on the raft? Yes. We had in addition a sampan.
1368. Was any member of your crew injured when you were fired at?
wounded.
1369. What was his name? Leung Hong.
1370. Where was he wounded? His feet were hurt.
1371. Eventually you were rescued by another junk and brought to Aberdeen?
One was
Yes.
1372. What happened to Leung Hong when you got back to Aberdeen? A report was made at the Aberdeen Police Station and Leung Hong was removed to the Queen Mary Hospital.
1373. Did you yourself go to Queen Mary Hospital yesterday? Yes, I went there yes-
terday.
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