DON'T BE PENSIVE. SHIRLEY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1936..
1915 MUTINY RECALLED
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STORMS FOLLOW FLOODS
SINGAPORE MEMORY
A PAGE FROM HISTORY OF GREAT WAR
By A Correspondent
August, 1914, saw Singapore totally unprepared for the out- break of a world war.
Her garrison consisted of two regiments, ond the King's Own Yorkshire and the other the Fifth Indian Light Infantry, a nativo regiment of very old standing and with traditions that were envied by many other native troops.
This regiment had the distinction of being one of the very few Indian regiments to remain loyal during the Indian Mutiny, and, as a favoured body of troops, had been honoured by the responsibi- lity of guarding Singapore.
Immediately on the pthreak off Singapore took much longer than bąd hostilities, the Yorkshires were trans-Į been anticipated, and the Europeans ported home for service in France, who comprised the Singapore Volun and the Straits Settlements Govern- teers and time to arm and join fores ment immediately commenced enlist with the Malay battalion. Previous Ing volunteers for the garrison of the|to the inveting other isolated Euro- forts and other duties. Early in 1915, peans had been shot, and the alarm Singapore's defendera consisted of the hat been flashed around the islanıl. Fifth Indian Infantry, a Malay bat- When the two forers met a sharp tallos, and the newly formed Euro- | encounter took place that culminated pean Volunteers.
in the retirement of the mutineers, leaving a number of dend. They re- tired on two bungalows aud inst- medintely art up machine-gun posts that successfully repulsed the attack of the Volunteers and Maliys.' A nortir from the bungalows forced the loyalists to refire.
There
in was 期待 stspieleri minik that the Ivilnos. were contemplating mutiny, To this dny do not think the details of the ADD TO DEATH LIST muting have been runde public.
time. alt reports of the rising were rigorously censur-l ed, and very few international papers] ever heard of the trouble, it camej es a complete surprise to the mathie
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in the meantime the other party and advanced on Keppel Hartur attacking and killing severni Aus tralians
at the enble depot before The Indians were in barracks at:
enatining their advance. Normanton, which lay a few minutes later they came into contact Twenty From Singapore city, and commanded with a detachment of 80 mess who had
A1 While tornadoes and storms in the most of the roads into the town, Mississigui Valley and the Southern, the guard on the ammunition de and in the spirited sight thins followed p.ni on February 1h a shot vang en linded from the H.M.S. Cadmus, lusting six hours, over 40 mutineers week's ath-rull from the elements et felled, the Farmom was pres were either killed a captured; the to 177, the Ohio River has quietened it, and all the hall engtridges.
rebellious remainder, however, retired in
120 down somewhat.
order, and joined forces with these in the bungalow,
and Eastern Statem have raised the
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CORRESPONDENCE
The Government and the Volunteers
To The Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph.)
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1. Hutch Medley; 2. Wakel J. Love is everywhere; 1. Kiss me goodnight.
8.20-8.40 p.m.
From the Studio. A Planoforte Recital. by Nura Kanis
Programme.
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9.15-9.30 p.m. Daventry News. Bulletin.
From the Studio,
9.30-10 p.m.
Colleen Parker--Vocal; Doreen Ma
Varictions "Thirty-Tw
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8.40-8.57 p.m. Concert Waltzes, Roses of the South (J. Strauss); Blue Danube (J. Strauss); Tales from the Vienna Woods (J. Straus).
8.57-9.15 p.m.
A Recital by Sin---There has recently been | Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano). cotriderable correspondence and 1. My love is for ever trúe ("Il Re publicity <l the necessity for Pastore") (Mozart); 2. Alf Cours Government retrenchment, and the ringer more ("Le Nozze di ordinary "man in the street" thinks Seold me. Oh dear
3. Scold me, Figaro" (Mozart); there is ample need for it. Equal Giovanni") (Mozart):
Masetto ("Don
4. ly, he has usually pretty, strong this feeling? Le Nozze di Figaro") What is
Views as to the directions in which (Mozart). eennomy can or cannot be exercised. This week-end has witnessed an example of what. I feel, all grades of non-Government society will. consider omphatically is no the Accompanist, George Bond and Bill way to economise. We have wit-Cameron on two Pianos. nessed the operation of the Defence Scheme, designed to protect this Besieged In Bungalow
Colony from foreign aggression. The Volunteers have their part in Thu fizet victim WIS Majori the business centres of the towns. Maclean, of the Malny battalion, whol That evening motar ears scoured this, and military opinion will
Some of the largest industries al
all the lying parts of Singapore agree it is an essential part-if the visiting Normanton, and few minutos Inter Captain Boyce was beland, bringing in women and child- Valunteers did not exist, more Hartford, Connectient, have respit
rest of the officersten who for safely, were placed out regular troops would be necessary. ed. Hundreds of workers were in-shot dead. The "citated before they were, nilowed to had sought refuge in a war Telegraph Company's cable boat, the digits best to discourage the
in the stream on board the Eastern
Yet the Hongkong Government enter the fland-swept buildings, while ungalow, und, in company with a in New England inoculations have dozen Malays, put the building in a Recorder, Martin law was proclaim-
Volontrers, not only by refusing on been performed by the thousand,ugh state of defence. Here they and every available
were besieged by 68 of the mutineers, night preparations were feverishly them while engaged in the opera- called up for services. During the the grounds of economy, to`pau. while the rest of the Indian regi- ment. divided into two bodies and rushed forward.
early next fans, but by refusing even to pro- commenced the advance en Singa-morning a party composed of the Heide rations. I understand they pore. On the way the met and shot men from the Cadmus, 21 from theatro neglected to provide blankets are abserved by Daventry. G. V. Dyson, district judge, Mr. Mar-rrison artillery
volunteer advanced towards the shelters, and the men had only | shall, of the Chinn Insurance
Memutineers,
GBB At 5.50 nm. an action their drill uniforms and greatcoats: 1 Mr. and Mrs. R. Wontembe, of the commenced, but the attack was held in what was very cold weather for
Eastern Extension Telegraph
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Garrison Surprised
Indians.
Reinforcements of 15
I sincerely trust that the mili-) and children, befarmed civilians had meanwhile beentary authorities will draw the at- fore they met with any opposition by rushed up, and this fresh, body of tention of the Secretary of State men performed an outflanking move)
If the on the rebels and poured in such to the Government's action. hot fire, that a second attack by the Government is not prepared to take combined force achieved success, and its share in defending the Colony, 30-rebels-were-killed-ur-Laken;-- bafter come out in the open and
say so. If it considers the mili tary should be responsible, then. again, better it hands the whole. administration of the Volunteers
. Programme.
Ling to: 6.
1. -Song-Speaking Confidentially; 2. Piano Duets-Selected: 9. Song I'm sitting high on a top: 4. plane Ducts Selected; 6. Song- Give mo a heart to Plano Ducts-Selected.
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Transmission 1
(G.8,N., G.S.D., G.SB) 2.15 pm.
Big Ben, An Organ Recital by Cur Weltz, from the Concert Hail, Brondenating House.
"Esemping for Living." The Mala Makem." Greenwich Time Signal at 3.16 p.m.
2.45 x.m.
1.30 p.m. "The Four of Us" Bod and Alf
·
¿p.m.
4.15 p.m.
At Tanglin Barracks_the_second at the Anal plenary season of the party of Indians surprised the garri. Lundon Naval Conference at St. son and practically pivery officer was
Mutineers Retired Janes Palace at 4.10 p.m. (G.M.T.) | killed, without a chance to defend ! on March 25,
himself. The gates of the nearby The rest of the mutineers retired internment camp were thrown open, in
JD.m. fair order and later on in the Speeches by Mr. Anthony Eden and and the German prisoners of war in- morning launched a determined attack over to the Regulars. But certain- Lord Monsell, First Lord of the vited to join forces with them, but on the Orchard Road police station: ly this partial acceptance of res Admiralty, will be heard. Recordings not one prisoner availed himself of but the police there had been aug ponsibility is irritating and any of the speeches by Dominions · dele- the chance to regain his freedom. mented by the addition of 200thing but conducive to efficiency, gates will later be broadenst in select-Owing to a failure of transport. Japanese residents, An ed transmissions.--British Wirelenn.
the while it is definitely detrimental to f plans, the mutingers! march en | múlineers were beaten back with
heavy losses. That afternoon a deel recruiting, Perhaps some Governi sive battle took place at Pasir Pand-ment officials forget that if there Jang; the fortunes of the fight were no defence scheme, their own) wavered for an hour, but finally, the over-large salaries and emoluments combined forces inflicted a heavy de- would not be enjoyed for long! fent on the rebels, and many were I have heard definite statements killed and captured, those who us-
on more than one occasion caped setting up small machine gun posts in different bungagows, and certain Government departments defying all attempts at capture.
deliberately discourage their staffs from joining the Volunteers.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
.. ON
that
IT IS DIFFICULT TO DIVERT ONE'S SILPĮ) The Empress of Canada is due here OF VANTTY; BECAUSE IMPOSSIBLE TO from Shanghai at 7 am. on Friday. DÍVEST ONE'S BELF
SELF-LOVE, Horace Walpole,
The P. and O. liner Somali is due here from Shanghal at 11 Advices have been received locally | Friday, of the inauguration of Improved air-
It would appear that a public. conditioned equipment on Canadian A Dinner
Dance will be held at
(statement of the Government's Early next morning saw the arrival policy in respect of the voluntary Pacific Railway through trains dur-Repulse Bay Hotel on Wednesday, in Singapore of the French cruiser defence of the Colony, for which it ing the coming summer.
March 25, at 80
Montcalm and a regiment of Shrop is responsible, is overdue. shires from Bangkok, but their as
1/10 p.m.
Cruisers Arrivo
A coolie, Chan Tak-pang; was nd Students of the Central Britishsistance WAR not required. The mitted to the Government Civil School
are giving drill and Singapore mutiny was almost at an Hospital yesterday suffering from a gymnastle' dispiny, on Friday, at 5.15 end. Sixty-two men of the Indian fractured leg, caused when he had anfpan. Admission will be by program- Light infantry had been killed and accidental Tali at the Tung On me, the price of which is twenty over 400 were prisoners. Lively snip- Wharf,
ing took place for the next fortnight, but all the stragglers were eventually.
.1
Buffering from an injury in bis, head caused by a woman with whom ho had a quarret, striking hins with a hammer, Mak Mong, a coolle, was admitted to the Government Civil
Iospital yesterday.
cenia.
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Messrs. Benjamin & Potta have The forthcoming wedding is an-rounded up, and either surrendered received the following buying and ounce of Mr. Willlam O'Connor, or were killed. The most remarka-selling quotations from their Manila clerk, of Messrs. Hewart and Co., and ble thing regarding the rebellion was Agents this morning: residing at 10 Wing Hing Street, top well-trained Indian regiment broke Antamoks
the manner in which the full and Benguet Consolidateds No buyers 11.70 Boor, and Miss-Mario Leonard, living before the determined attack of the Paracales at Tin Hau Temple Road, top Boor.
Malays and the partly-trained and San Mauricios quickly organised European valun-1, X. L'a
These combined forces were Masbate Wing hopelessly outnumbered, and it was Demonstrations
A summons against Li Koonchunteers." ho, residing at No. 218 Pokfukum and Li Tse-fong, of No. B1
Peaton (Songs at the Plans forte), and Hisbe Haworth and Dennis Hedhead (Entertainers) in
an intimate cabaret.
The News
Close down.
Transmission 2
(0.8.J., G.B.G.)
7 n..
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Biyen. "How's That?".
.. Pianoforte Solo,
7.45 p.m. Quantin Maclean, at the Grown of the Trocadero Cinema, Elephant
and Cartie
Groenwich Time Bignal at 8 pm. a.is p.m. The R.B.C. Empire Orthestra. 2.16 p.m. The News
9.20 p.m. Minniead Interlude.
148 pm. Clore down.
Transmission 3
(0.8.0, 0.8.5)
10 p.m. Big Ben. "Bongs Ont of the West" 10.41 p.m. Musical Interlude.
14,59 pm. A
Pianoforte Interlude Ernest Lash.
by
11.16 p.m. The Bournemouth Municipal
Orchestra Greenwich Time Signal at 12.30 am. -112.30 a.m. The News.
13.45 mm. Jan. Beronska and his Orchestra.
Close down,
POVERTY EXCUSE
NOT ACCEPTED BY MAGISTRATE
"Poverty has driven me to do this; .88 I have an aged mother," ploaded Tong 440 Kam-hing, 18, unemployed, when he
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A six-year old boy, Wong Kami fload, died at the Government Civil Lok Street, the landlords of No. 123 only the strength and the bravery of Big Wedges.. Hospital, yesterday afternoon follow. Woosung Street, ground floor, was be- the men from the Cadmus that turned ing admission with a fractured skull. fore Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon the tide that saved Singapore and its It appears he had had an accidental Magistracy this morning. The aum- Inhabitants from massacre. To this fall at his home and was taken to mons alleged that the Mefendants day the result of the inquiry into the hospital by his father at 10 п.т.
had failed to comply with a Police cause of the mutiny has never been He died at 3.30
Magistrate's order dated Mm.
February made public but rumour has
11
Mackinlay appeared for the defen-nor
Germany herself
38 was charged with the attempted theft 10% of a pocket-watch and chain from Chol Yuk, 21, a P.W.D. coolle, before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis- tracy: this morning,
In reply to defendant's pien, his The anticyclone over China con- | Worship remarked that poverty and
castward. | larceny from the person. In the the former case, if defendant had stolen
been!
money Pressure remains highest in
was
in
south-cast af Hokkaido. Local fore- | it._2
Sentence of three months'
26, 1036, lo cease the use of the rife. One thing definitely established extending southsand and
tinues to gain intensity, and is an aged mother ware no excure for A mendicant, Yu Chun-kaj, who premises as a brothel. Mr. W. A.was that neither German proved to be a nuisance in Fly ants, and on his appication April any way concerned. Not long after. I vicinity of Shantung. The depression a loaf of bread or a bottle of milk, Dragon Terrace yesterday, appeared at 2.30 p.m. was Axed for hearing. Iwards Kassim Mansoor, a fabulously has moved into the Pacific to the he this Worship) might have believed before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Cen- tral Magistracy this morning, on
rich Indian merchant and a prominent castN.E. winds, fresh; cloudy that about 7.35 p.m. on Monday com- Detective-Sergeant Torrent stated charge of begging and was fined $50; A week's romand in order that public man, was arrested and con- in default, one month's hard labour efforts for restitution may be made victed of high treason,
generally,
plainant was Acting
watching a Chineso Sub-Inspector Madgowick was granted by Mr. Balfour at the
41 Executed
Juggler, at Taipam Street, when de said he received a telephone message Central Police Court this morning
hardfendant: was seen by a detective o that defendant, was in Fly Dragon when Mark Yuk-sho, alias Mark Slu-At the court martial 41 mutinaare labour was passed by Mr. Balfour take hold of complainant's watch chain Terraca for two hours, and had re un alias Allen Y. S. Mark, plended were sentenced to death and the re-morning on Cheng Wing
at the Central Police Court this
and try to pull it out. When the do- fuzod to go away. A police constable guilty to the embezzlement of $700 mainder to various terms of imprison-employed coolie, of 18, Tai Ping it
35. un-tective arrested defendant he dropped was sent, and defendant moved away,
from the
the Wong Nam firm, Queen's ment When the constable loft, defendant Road Contral. The complainant was public, as a deterrent to any other Lenny Mel, 07, widow; now comer The execution took place in Shan Street, for stealing $7 from returned to the Terrace again, and Mr. LI_Jow-non, another telephoho message was re-firm. Detectivo inaboots of the natives who might have ideas of dis: from: Macao, in Dos Voeur Road, R
M. Mur loyally, The Indians met their ond cived at the station complaining that phy stated the defendant was em- bravely, avery man, refusing to be Central, near Clovoricy Street short fondant snatched the money and ran he was causing a nuisance. Mr. ployed as
ho salesman. Defendant blindfolded, and standing, as impasly after midday yesterday. Sub Into restaurant whore Schonold ordered. defendant to be said he had been in Hongkong for 26 alve and rigid, as I on the parade man was carrying the notes wrapped runner, and handed over to an Indian Inspector, L. Mirl stated the-wo- caught by Chan Lol, boarding house sent back to the country.
years and had spent the money.
In paper in her hand when the do constable.
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