Shanghai, June 8, R. Richard Maurice Tinkler, forty-one years old labour superintendent at the China Printing & Finishing Ca.'
Lun Chang mill at Pootung Point, succumbed in the General Hospital at 5.30 a.m, yesterday to severe bayonet wounds received during a skirmish with Japanese bluejackets on the mill property on the morning of June 6, Believed to have been hit only with the butt of a rifle while grappling with the sailors, news of his grave injuries was not received until he was despatched with all haste from Pootung, where he had been detained by the Japanese forces ince morning, to the hospital shortly after 10 pin. Despite an immediate operation, the fact that his wounds had not been treated for many hours proved to be fatal, and he succumbed to internal haemorrhage.
Me, Tinkler, it will be recalled, was stated to have fired at Japanese officers and sailors with his pistol on the morning of June 6 after a detachment of bluejackets had escorted a party of Chinese strikers and strikebreakers across the mill premises to the Japanese Naval Landing Party Head quarlers. It was stated that he had been injured by a blow from a rifle butt and had been taken into "pro fective custody" at the Headquarters, This Incident occurred at about am,, it was stated, following which one was allowed to sec Tinkler fat the Headquarters until he was despatched to hospital at 10 pin, At 4pm. on June 6 the "North-China Daily News" was informed, a British Consular oficial was refused per~ mission to seo Tinkler, while at 7 pam, the man's condition was. reported by the Japanese authorities tobe improving.
The body has been removed to the parlours of the International Funeral Directors from the General Hospital. where an autopsy was performed yesterday. afternoon. - It was discovered there that Mr. Tinkler had received two very deep wounds on each side of the abdomen while his body was covered with many bruises,
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