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The court-martial in the matter of the notification of the infringemmert of martial law concerning the above 25 persons, public prosecutor Arty Legal Branch Major FOMJKI, Kazuo participating, completed the examination and entered judgment as follows :-

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The said YOUNG SHO-DUCK, CHENG YAT, William John WHITE, Alexander Christy SHINTON, LEONG HUNG, Frederick Ivan George HALL, BRADLEY, Douglas william WATERTON, Hubert Stanley FEES, Walter Richardson SCOTT, John Alexander FRAZER CHUNG TUNG SAM, LUK CHING KIT, IN LAM, YAN CHIEU MING, LEE HUNG HOI, LAU TAK OI, CHAN PING FUN and LAU TAK KWONG were all condemned to death,

The said Luis Carlos Rosario SUZA, Frank ROBERT, Tillima John ANDERSON, James Isalie ANDERSON, HO TAU and CHAN WAI CHI were all severally condemned to 15 years imprisonment.

Grounds,

After the outbreak of the Great East Asia War December 1941 the Imperial Arwy occupied HONGKONG, The British organisation at SHIU KWAN (KUKONG) directed its main attention to operations against HONGKONG, Public servants of the former HONGKONG British Goverment, etc., directing the British organization at WAICHOW, occupied themselves in anti-Japanese espionage operations and operations to win over powerful elements in the hinterland.

In June 1942, TS'O TSUN ON, the Superintendent of the Police Reserve Fores of the former HONGKONG Goverment, in addition to consulting with LOIS FOCK WING (TN alias DAVID LOIE), the assistant Superintendent of the same Force (who committed suicide at the time of his arrest on 31st May 43), was in touch with the British Organization at SHIU KWAN, had to gather and communicate various intelligence regarding the military situation eto, of the Imperial Army in HONGKONG, the conditions being the guarantee of the life of the Reserve Police Chief at WAICHOV. He gained approval for these proposed objects.

Superintendent TS'O TSUN ON announced these objects to LOXE POOK WING, and the latter, from about the end of 1942, set up the beginnings of the constitution of the HONGKONG Command Post, an anti-HONGKONG espionage group connected with England, comprising a large number of police officers.

It began to operate about March 1,43. Meting under orders from the British organization agents were sent to gather information concerning important military installations, etc., and report on what they discovered. Their operations finally extended to the P.0,W. Camp at HONGKONG and to the Interment Camp for enemy aliens.

Before the war, the accused YEUNG SAU TAK was employed as a draughtsman at the British Naval Dockyard, and after the fall of HONGKONG he continued to work in the same capacity for 2 Engineering Sections of the Japanese Navy. Outwardly he was pro-Japanese, but actually his thoughts were violently anti-Japanese. About October 1942 he was approached by LOIE FOOK WING and requested to assist in forming a spy organisation. He agreed to do this and became active in the work. When the organization was completed in March 1943, he undertook espionage work under the orders of LOIE FOCK WING. From then until the end of April he on several occasions stole secret documents of a military nature from the Planning Room of the shipbuilding Section of 2 Engineering Section, where he worked, copied them in secret ink and gave the copies to intermedians fer transmission to the British organization at WAICHOW. Furthermore, at the end of March 43, acting on orders from LOTE FOOK WING, he set up a radio apparatus in his room in the dormitory of the said Engineering Seation at 39 Ipokhart Road, HONGKONG BẦY with the object of establishing radio communication between HONGKONG and WAICHOW,

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