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The accused Proderick Ivan George HALL, was a butcher, and was interned after the Japanese took HONGKONG, He was put in charge of provisions and thus had opportunities of contacting the Chinese LEUNG HUNG, a coolie employed by the Governor-General's Department. From January 1943 to the beginning of July of the same year on between ten and twenty occasions, he secretly introduced or sent out messages, knowing it to be an offence to introduce or send out any article without the permission of the appropriate authority. About April of that year LEUNG HUNG at the instance of LOIE FOOK "ING asked him to deliver to the addresses important secret papers from the British organization of WAICHOW, and this he duly did on every occasion knowing full well the mature of the papers he was handling. In June of the same year, in the same camp, he was asked to deliver a secret document from ANDERSON about V.T. code from LOIE FOOK WING addressed to FRASER, Chief of Police of the former HONGKONG Government.

The accused ERAILET was the chief of the Public Health Department of the former HONGKONG Government, and was interned after the fall of HONGKONG. Although he knew it was forbidden to introduce articles into the camp, or sed them out without the permission of the appropriate official, he nevertheless made use of the accused LEUNG HUNG on about ten occasions to exchange messages with the accused SHIN'ON between March and June 1943. In April of that year he was asked by the accused HALL to hand to the former police chief SCOẾT a message concerning V.T. coda from the British organization in WAICHOW, which LOIE FOOK WING was getting in through SIIN ON. Knowing quite well the import of what he was doing, he agreed to this and some days later delivered the message to SCOTT.

The accused Douglas William WATERTON was a wireless technician employed by the former HONGKONG Government, and was interned after the fall of HONGKONG. While in the camp he heard that the accused ROBERT had a secret radio sat, which he and the accused REES forced him to hand over. It was used on the instructions of FRASER, the representative of the English in the camp, from April 42 to June 43 to listen to broadcasts from London and other places, which were reported to FRASER. In May 1942, the accused FRASER got a certain American (since returned to America by exchange), who was also in the camp, to get a V.7. receiving set brought in. In April 43 a letter from the British organization in WAI HOW was introduced by HALL, concerning W.T. communication, and this was handed to FRASER. Thereafter, wireless liaison was established between the Internment camp and the British organization.

The accused Hubert Stanley HEES was employed as a technician on the HONGKONG Undersea Cable before the war and was interned when HONGKONG fell. As explained above, he and the accused WATERLON obtained a radio from ROBERT listened to broadcasts from London and other places, and reported to FRASER. About April 43, acting on FRASKR's orders they tried to establish communication with WATCHOF.

The accused Falter RICHARDSON SCOTT was chief of police, HONGKONG, before the war, and was interned when HONGKONG fell. In April 43 when the former Assistant Superintendent of Reserve Police Force LAIE FOOK WING secretly sent him a document conceming the establishment of Radio comunication between the Interment Camp and the British organization at MAICHOV, he did his best to achieve this, in co-operation with FRASER.

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The accused John Alexander FRAZER was a major on the reserve list and was Assistant Public Procurator-General in the former HONGKONG Government. the fall of HONGKONG he was placed in the Interment Camp, and acted as representative of the British Internees. Up to about April 1942 he caused the accused VATE:TON and REES to listen in secretly to broadcasts from London and other places on a radio set they had and to report to him on what they heard. About May 1942 he caused a certain American (who has since retumed to America on exchange) secretly to introduce a radio receiving set into the Internment camp. About April 1943, acting on ini'ormation received from the above-mentioned 10IE FOOK WING, he conspired with ICOM to have RKES arrange radio liaison between the camp and the British organization at WAICHOW.

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