CO129-570-13 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on a fishing junk 23-5-1938 - 10-12-1938 — Page 35

Further evidence of Cheung Kwai, the son of Cheung Yau-lei,

and one of the three men who were taken out of the sumpan

to go ashore at Lintin.

Note: This witness' eyesight was much better than the

other two men's. Ile clearly distinguished an 0.5.K. House Flag flying about 300 yards away, though he took it to look

like this:

instead of like this:

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When describing things outside his normal life be

was unable, like most of the otæ illiterate fishermen here,

to form or curr, a clear-cut picture of what he saw, let

alone describe it adequately.

He stated :

1. "When the Japanese motor-boat first approacled

us I did not notice if it had a flag. It had no funnel

that I saw, and one mast forward; the hull was grey, and the

bridge and mast a dull brownish or yellow-brown. There was

a gun up toward the bows, but I do not know what colour it

was as it was covered over with a grey-painted canvas cover;

there were two men by the gun. I cannot read". (itness

was unable to appreciate an Arabic numeral or an english letter

or a Chinese ciaracter). "There were some white-painted

markings on the stern and

said he could not draw i

on the bows of the ship." witness

the attached sketch of the ship was

eventually produced by me in the same way as with Cheung Yau-

lei