CO129-570-14 Sino-Japanese War- attack on fishing junk by Japanese sailors 18-5-1938 - 22-12-1938 — Page 56

Detective Office,

Water Police Station,

Kowloon,

9th May, 1938.

CHEUNG YAU 32 years,

Accountant of CHUEN HING Boat-yard, Main Street West,

Native of Shaukiwan, Hongkong,

States :-

I have been employed at the above

boat-yard over 7 years,

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I know a man named CHEUNG CHIK LIX.

He is well known at Shaukiwan as a fisherman.

On 6.6.1935, CHEUNG CHIK LIN placed

an order with our firm to build him a junk 60 feet by 22

feet wide by 8 feet deep. The contract price for the boat was $3900.00 and another $100.00 for gear. The boat was

completed and handed over about 40 days later.

CHEUNG CHIK

LIN had meanwhile paid $2800.00 and the balance was paid

off in instalments by June 1937. In the account book which

I produce now at the Water Police Station, there is a

complete record of this transaction with CHEUNG CHIK LIN.

was

When he took over this boat it was licensed at Shaukiwan

and given the number 291.

(sd.) Chas. Mottram.

P.S.A.105.

10.5.38