Detective Office, Vater
113
Police Station.
CHENG YAN HONG 28 years,
Master of Fishing Junk No.931 H.A.
Fesiding on board, of Hong Kong,
States:-
I am master of Fishing Junk No.931 H.A., which left
Aberdeen on 1st June, 1940, at 06.00 hours bound for LING
Ting (Chinese Territory) to buy fish. On board I had a crew
of four.
On 1st June, 1940, at 11.00 hours my junk was sailing
about half a mile west of LING TING (Chinese Territory), I saw
a Japanese destroyer painted grey, two funnels and two masts and flying Japanese Naval flag at its stern come from the west.
We were waved to go alongside the destroyer. Seven Japanese
dressed in white uniform and armed with short swords boarded
The y my junk. They searched and took $36.00 from the cabin.
also dumped two cannon and one musket, 20 pounds of shot, 5
bullets, 10 pounds of gun-powder and 10 fuses into the sea and
when they left they took two culs of fish. I sailed my junk
back to Aberdeen arriving at 19.00 hours on 2nd June, 1940.
I reported at Aberdeen Police Station at 09.00 hours and was
later sent to Tsim Sha Tsui.
I always operate from Aberdeen and buy fish from
fishing junks at LING TING. The fish I bring back to
Kennedy Town and sell to the market. when the Japanese
destroyer was alongside my junk I saw the No.4 painted in
white amidships.
Value of two cannon:
#
#
one musket:
$40.00
6.00
#
n shot, bullets,
gunpowder and fuses:
10.00
Money:
36.00
Value of two piculs of fish:
30.00
Total
$122.00
(Sgd.) H.T. Matches.
Lance Sergeant A. 87 - 3rd June, 1940
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