June 8.
Correspondents who have written expressing their views on the subject of the incident at Pootung which resulted in the death yesterday morning of Mr. R. M, Tinkler are informed that their communications cannot be printed at the moment, With the opening of the inquest yesterday morning the whole matter has now become sub judice and it would be contempt of court to make! any comment upon it. It would be as well, however, to remember that the account of the affair which appeared in the local Press yesterday morning was a purely ex parte Statement by the Japanese officials, and in this connection it may be remembered that tone tale is good until another is told. There are, in the statement made by the Japanese spokesman, many matters which will undoubtedly be elucidated in the course of the inquiry which has been commenced by the British authorities, not the least important of which is the omission on the part of the spokesman to make any reference to what happened t Mr. Tinkler save to state that he was hit with the butt end of a rifle by a Japanese sailor. Nothing was said of the ab wounds which it is now alleged were leted upon the dead'man, nor when they were administered. When the inquest has been completed and the true facts of the case ascertained it will: be possible properly to comment on what appears, even on the statements of the Japanese spokesman, and upon what he apparently omitted to say, a very grave matter indeed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.