Source 16    A statement from Liew Ship Yit, a new Chinese immigrant saved from being smuggled overseas by the British Police

The middleman came to me and said if you will come with me to Singapore, I will show you how to make lots of money, with which you can keep for your wife and family. I don’t know what the passage money was, but was told it would be very cheap and we could get money by working in Singapore to repay it. However, when we arrived, we were taken to a house upstairs and not allowed to come out. This morning, I was taken on board a boat with a lot of others, and those who refused to board were beaten up. I got beaten up as I do not wish to go past Singapore, this is the place I agreed to come to. I did not come here to be sold as a slave elsewhere.

Source Origin: Wise,M. (1996). Traveller’s Tales of Old Singapore. Singapore: Times Books International.

Use Record: Manjusri Secondary School, 2015.