Referring to events later at the General Hospital when a Japanese naval officer stated by eyewitnesses to have arrived there, accompanied by two sailors with fixed bayonets, and to have strode up and down the Reception Hall giving orders in Japanese, insisting to be shown to the patients' room and the doctors in charge, a correspondent asked if any information had been received in connection with the visit of Japanese marines to the Hospital where something of a "rumpus" had been created.
"The Japanese officer asked to see the injured parties" the spokesman replied, "and a member of the S.M.P. refused this request on his own initiative and took an extremely unfriendly attitude. In view of this, such incidents will occur," he added "Might I contradict this," stated another pressman, "I happened to be there. The question was not raised by the police." Continuing, he stated that the officer walked into the Accident Ward where he attempted to question Sergeant Wimsett, who was three-quarters unconscious. The only person approached by the officer was the telephone operator there, who stated that he was only the telephone operator and not a doctor. This man, he continued, asked the police for
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