CO129-585-7 Sino-Japanese conflict- interned Chinese soldiers 18-1-1940 - 27-12-1940 — Page 46

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D.R.577

INQUIRY No. 1 of 1940.

In Charge of the case

Inspector Rogers.

INFORMATION of Witnesses severally taken and acknowledged

Hong Kong) on behalf of Our Sovereign King George the Sixth at the

to wit

)

House known as Police Court, Kowloon in Kowloon in the

said Colony, on the 4th day of January in the year of Our Lord

One thousand nine hundred and forty before E. Himsworth, Esquire,

Gentleman, Magistrate for the said Colony touching the death of

LAU KWONG FUK, male, 25 yrs., deceased.

1.

JAMES DOWNIE THOMSON, Esq.

Foreman.

2.

CHARLES CHUN HAM, Esq.

3.

LUIZ ANTONIO DA ROCHA.

VERDICT

We find that the deceased was LAU KWONG FUK, who died

on 29.11.39 from gunshot wounds inflicted by police officers

acting in accordance with their instructions as he attempted

to escape from Ma Tau Chung internment camp.

(Sa.)

tr

=

11

J. D. Thomson,

L. A. da Rocha,

C. C. Ham,

Eric Himsworth, Coroner,

4.1.40.