It was about 5:00pm when the riot broke out, that is, when the nationalist flag in Shek Kip Mei was removed. We were working at that hour. Our company coach carried some senior staffs downtown, and when it came back it urged us to leave. At that time they were constructing the new runway, and there was a flyover in Kowloon City used to transport spoils from the excavation site to Kai Tak Bund. They said the situation was chaotic, so we got on the cycles to flee. But midway, at the Regal Hotel today, we were snatched by a group of gangsters waving nationalist flags.

They’d let us go only if we bought a nationalist flag. You paid whatever amount, like $1 or $5. We were sitting on the back of the cycle. I left after buying one at $1. I was living in Kowloon Tong at that time, opposite to St.Teresa’s Hospital.