VERED with huge bloodstains and dirty drag marks a white shirt and a pair of khaki shorts, which had been worn by the late Mr. R. M, Tinkler, labour superintendent at the China Printing & Finishing Co.'s Lun Chang mill at Pootung Point, on June 6 when he sustained bayonet wounds, from which he, subsequently died at the General Hospital, during a skirmish with a party of Japanese marines at the mill, were produced as exhibits in H. M. Coroner's Court yesterday when the inquest was resumed by Mr. C. H. Haines, H. M. Coroner. Evidence was given by, eye-witnesses of the struggle between Tinkler and the Japanese marines, one of whom saw the man stabbed by bayonets, and by, a British Consular official, who was refused permission to see Tinkler at the military hospital in Pootung and who was informed by the surgeon, who had attended him, that his condition was not serious, Present at the enquiry were Mr. H. H. Thomas, H.M. Consul for Japanese Affairs, and Mr. John McNeill instructed by the China Printing Finishing Ca. on behalf of the next of kin of deceased and on behalf of the company.
ivan James Ogilvie Grant, engineer employed by the China Printing Finishing Ca. at the Lun Chang mill, told the Coroner that at about 745 on the morning of June 6 he was in his room in the flats above the office building and he noticed a crowd of about 30 strikers, who were landing on the pontoon from sampans, He Tushed down to the lounge and informed those present of what was happening and then made a dash towards the mill.
At the end of the office building, where it met the road going to the gate, he noticed about ten Japanese sailors coming over a low iron fence from the Shanghai Dockyards. These sailors immediately rushed up and opened the mill gates from the inside of the compound, allowing strikers and loyal workers to come inside.
The Japanese sailors allowed the strikers, who were carrying long sticks to enter. These people, he stated, had been placed by the Japanese on the right hand side of the gate and were not under escort. When they had all got together one of them. gave a shout and they rushed towards the Power House.
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