CO129-580-1 Sino-Japanese War- handing over of suspected terrorists to Japanese authorities 1-5-1939 - 24-8-1939 — Page 22

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started, when we took up our seats on the upper floor;

owing to the darkness we did not know where the traitorous

Ching was sitting. During the interval we both rose

together and looked round. It happened that he, his wife

and his three children had their seats in the 4th row

beside our right. The youngest of the three children, a

boy, was sitting on his immediate left; next were his wife,

elder son and daughter.

On that day, however, the traitorous Ching was

wearing a grey coloured long coat and a pair of rimless,

plain (?) coloured spectacles. As he used to wear Europe an

styled clothes we were not sure of his identity at that

time. An idea occurred to Chuk Chung-leung, No.1 maker of

these confessions. He immediately went to the place outside

the cinematograph operating room and wrote on a glass slide.

This he handed in and requested that it might be screened.

On the glass slide he had clearly written with a Chinese

pen the five characters " 程經理外找 n (meaning

Manager Ching, you are wanted). Two or three minutes later

these five characters were projected on the small silver

screen. After reading this message, the traitorous Ching

tried to get on his feet, when he was stopped by his wife.

We were thus able to make certain that the man, who had

wanted to rise and had remained on his seat was Ching Sik-

kang, a traitor of Han. We then actively engaged ourselves

in arranging how we should act.

First Yuen Hon-tsun, the No.2 maker of these

confessions, secretly placed three of his own make small

percussion crackers(?) on the passage way of the bottom

floor so that when the people walked on them they would

explode and thus cause a panic in the theatre. This done

he secretly returned to and took his seat at the entrance

of the upper floor, in readiness to render protection to Chuk Chung-leung, the No.1 maker of these confessions, on his (Chuk Chung-leung's) leaving the theatre after he

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