Mr. Tinkler, he continued, was conveyed to the General Hospitat without delay where it was found that he had been severely bayonetted. "An operation was performed immediately" and was successfully Jconeluded but as such a long time had elapsed from the time he had Feceived the injuries until the time that the operation was. performed there was little hope of his recovery, the official slated. At 530 am. yes: terday he had succumbed to internal There was little doubt, the ment continued, that Mr. ink been bayoneted at the mill at the time of the incident. There had been sign of any head injury when he had been taken to hospital, which seemed to "disprove the Japanese statement that he had been hit the head with the butt of a rife after being disarmed. There were, how: lever, bruises on the right forearm.
appeared, he went on, that Mr. Tinkler had been knocked "to the around and then bayonetted.
During the afternoon of June 6 a British Vice-Consul was refused per= mission to sce the injured man and a Fequest that the man be attended by his own doctor or a foreign doctor was Jalso refused, the official pointed out.
also stated that it was probably a fact that Mr. Tinkler wat suffering from severe nervous strain at the time of the incident owing to labour troubles at the mill, where he lived, and "This incident is not a mere question of a Briton having Uheeatened, fo fre at a Japanese, but it is an front to the naval officers and constitutes an insult to the honour and dignity of our navy. This is, therefore, a very serious problem."
Not Stabbed"
Following this a Navy. spokesman stated that after having had his gun nocked away by one sailor, Tinikler Jumped to attack another sailor and he did that several sailors sur= rounded him with bayonets, spite of that he kept moving about and "he may: have come into contact with bayonets during the course of this," the spokesman said, He had been carried part of the way to the Company Headquarters and when half-way there he had Stoted thay he wanted to walk and was allowed to do 50. At the Company. Headquarters he' had. been token to the Infirmary and had been treated there immediately, "He had been placed on a bed, but as he had moved about so much and had kept on falling off the bed, he had been Placed on a Japanese' mat on the Noor. For several hours he had resisted any attempts to. treat_him. fond had kept on flaying his arms about, the spokesman continued, Asked at what time he had been stabbed in the abdomen, the spokes-jan replied that this had occurred hen he had been attempting. fight the bluejackets after he had been disarmed. "Was this necessary?"
pressman asked, and the spokes-han replied, "He was not, stabbed. He came into contact with bayonets as he was being surrounded by the Sailors. This ceeurted on the mill premises, Five or Six Wounds The surgeon, who had attended Tinkler, had stated that the would not allow them to treat him for his injuries and had voiced -the opinion that had he allowed himself to have been treated probably he would have lived, the spokesman went on. "Was he given the right isk for his own medical attend-questioner asked. "There is hho record of "als having "asked for that and when he was about to die was asked if he had anything to say and he thanked the Japanese surgeon for his care. This was taken down by witnesses," the spokesman stated in reply.
Tinkle: had been hit" with the butt of the rifle after he had been disarmed "when he wanted to ight the sailor, he continued. Asked how
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