CO129-570-14 Sino-Japanese War- attack on fishing junk by Japanese sailors 18-5-1938 - 22-12-1938 — Page 55

Detective Office,

Water Police Station,

Kowloon.

54

CHO YUET, 31 years,

Ship's Compradore,

No.314 Des Voeux Road, Central, 2nd floor,

States :-

*

I am the compradore of the river steamer

8.8. CHUEN CHOW, which plies between Hongkong and Macao.

At about 07,30 hours on the 5.5.38, I commenced to collect the passengers fares prior to the 8.S. CHUEN CHOW leaving Macao for Hongkong.

-A Chinese male passenger named CHEUNG SHAP NO told me that he had been employed on a junk that had been attacked and boarded by a Japanese naval party, who had tied his hands behind his back and that he had escaped by jumping overboard, being picked up some time later by a passing junk

and taken to Macao.

CHEUNG SHAP NG showed me rope-burn marks on

his wrists where they had been tied.

CHEUNG SHAP NG had no money and I gave him a

free passage to Hongkong.

(sd.) E.S. Brooks

L.S.A.108.

9.5.38.