CO129-578-12 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping 10-1-1939 - 17-11-1939 — Page 33

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Honourable Colonial Secretary,

1. I submit the report of an attack by an unidentified

Japanese motor boat on Fishing Junk No.2323 H.D. which occurred

at about 03.00 hours on 25th October, 1939, in Deep Bay,

British waters.

2. The presence of a strange motor vessel was first

observed in British waters at about 21.00 hours on 24th

October, 1939, when the master of a fishing junk No.2246 A.D.

stationed off Lau Fau Shan observed a strange motor vessel

approaching from the direction of Lin Tin Island. He is well

acquainted with No.11 Police Motor Boat, and suspecting that

the strange vessel was Japanese, he started to make for shallow

water. The strange vessel opened fire with a machine gun,

and the crew of 2246 A.D. replied with rifle fire. No injury

to persons on this fishing junk was sustained, and the strange

vessel turned back on reaching shallow water.

3.

At about 03.00 hours on 25th October, 1939, Fishing Junk 2323 H.D. was in a position approximately 14 miles N.W. of Sha Kong Miu, British territory. Visibility was very good,

there being a moon. The master and some of his crew were

engaged in fishing when a motor vessel was observed approaching

astern of the junk. The vessel, which was seen to be flying the Japanese flag, commenced firing with a machine gun. The

master Pang Fut then called for his arms to be handed up, and it was while engaged in doing this that a girl, Pang Wo aged 17, received a wound in the right buttock from a bullet which evidently penetrated the starboard side of the junk aft and

rebounded off a bulkhead.

4.

The master and his brother in the meantime fired

4 rounds at the Japanese motor vessel, and then discharged his

cannon upon which the motor vessel went off in the direction

of Lin Tin, Chinese waters.

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