TNAG-0634-FCO40-782-Violation-of-legislation-for-protection-of-endangered-specie-1977 — Page 77

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I, CAMILLE TSU, of 5J Bowen Road, 1st Floor, Hong Kong, a

secretary, make Oath and say as follows:-

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On Sunday the 28th November 1976, at about 12.30

p.m., I visited the snake shop known as Sing Lai Hong,

situated at 85 Fa Yuen Street, Mongkok, Kowloon. I wandered

all over the shop and was at liberty to see everything that

took place in the shop.

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At the rear end of the premises was a small covered

courtyard with a cement floor, and there was a man skinning

live snakes. There was a running tap that flushed the

blood away from the floor and which also served to wash the

blood away from the snakes after they had been skinned.

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I saw this man skin about six snakes in all, in the

following manner. He held the snake just underneath the

jaw with one hand, and with the other he used a V-shaped

wide-bladed short-handled knife to make a quick circular

incision round the neck of the snake. This was immediately

followed by another quick incision straight down the under-

side of the snake. Then, with the aid of the knife, he

quickly skinned the snake and threw it on the floor in order

to proceed with the next snake. A customer wanted 2-3 of

the snakes he had skinned, which he, placed into a plastic

shopping bag and handed to the customer. I saw that the

snakes were still alive in their bloody skinless' state, and

they were writhing about very quickly, in obvious agony.

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