London, June 6. Me. Richard Maurice Tinkler, forty-one years old labour superin-Complaints from a body of British tendent at the China Printing & Finishing Co.'s Lun Chang businessmen in Shanghai, that as mill at Pootung Point, succumbed in the General Hospital at 5.30 regards the £3,000,000 credit to China a.m. yesterday to severe bayonet wounds received during a skirmish they had got no part or share in making purchases or promoting with Japanese bluejackets on the mill property on Tuesday morn-sales, were mentioned in the House ing. Believed to have been hit only with the butt of a rifle while of Commons today in the course of grappling with the sailors, news of his grave injuries was not further discussions regarding the com-received until he was despatched with all haste from Pootung, pany called Trading Facilities Limited. where he had been detained by the Japanese forces since morning, The "concern was first mentioned to the hospital shortly after 10 p.m.. Despite an immediate opera-yesterday by Major-General Sir Alfred Knox, Conservative member tion, the fact that his wounds had not been treated for many hours for tne Wycombe division of Bucking-proved to be fatal, and he succumbed to internal haemorrhage. hampshire, who asked whether there Mr. Tinkler, it will be recalled, was any truth in the rumours that was stated to have fired at Japanese the Export Credit and Trade Depart-
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