Evidence was' concluded in HM. Goroner's Court yesterday morning into. the circumstances surrounding ihe death of Mr. Richard Maurice Tinkler, labour superintendent at the China Printing & Finishing Co.'s Lun Cheng mill- at Pootung Point, who died in the General Hospital on June 7.following wounds received at the hands of Japanese marines at the mill premises on the previous morning. In adjourning the enquiry until today t-1015-am.-Mr. C.H. Haines, H.M. Coroner, expressed regret that a request from. the Court to the Japanese Consular Court- for the-attendance-of three members of the Japanese Naval Landing Party had been ignored.
""The-usual. request- was -sent-feom-this Court" Mr. Haines stated, "to the Japanese- Consular -Court asking for the-attendance of-three members of the Japanese Naval Landing Party to give evidence in this inquest.—1t is a matter of regret that none of these members-have-appeared in this Court-and-I propose to consider the evidence—and -form -my conclusion whioh-I will deliver tomorrow (Tue: day) morning at-10.45 in this Court. -The- last witness- to give his test many-at thè enquiry: was. Mr. Henry Hugh Thomas, H.M. -Consul for Japanese-.-Affairs,—who- told the Goroneg that at-5-p.m. on June 6 the Japanese Consul-General, accompanied by a. member of-his staff, called- to see-the British Consul-Generat about the Tinkler-affair—-The Superintend~ ing-Consul-and. witness were both present: during the discussion, during the course of. which-Mr.-Ford, H.M. Vice-Consul-telephoned from Pootung-reporting-his failure to-obtain-access to Mr. Tinkler and. also that he-had been informed by eye"witnesses. that -Tinkler-had been bayonetted several times...
Witness thereupon. suggested to his Consul-General. that. arrangements should be made for-histo go-at-once ta-Pootung, accompanied by a- foreign doctor The British. Consul-General asked -the -Japanese Consul-General whether in fact- Tinkler had been bayonetted, the zeply-being that.
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