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Sir,
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 29th. July, 1918.
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I have the honour to report with much regret the death of Sergeant A. 48, Thomas Glendinning of the Hongkong Police.
Sergeant Glendinning was in charge of the Police Station at Tai 0, which is situated at the west end of
Lantao Island in the Southern District of the New Territories.
It appears that on the morning of July 17th. about 10.30 a.m. while Sergeant Glendinning was working at his desk in the charge room of the Police Station, a Indian Constable, Teja Singh, B. 18, entered and deliberately shot him in the head with his service carbine, death being
almost instantaneous. The Indian constable then fired at the
Sergeant's wife and at a Chinese boatman attached to the
Station narrowly missing both, and then set fire to the Police
Station, retired to his own quarters, and finally shot him-
-self. On the report of the first shot the Indian constable
on sentry guard with his carbine, together with 2 Indian
Sergeants, 8 Indian constables and 2 Chinese employees ran
away.
Considerable damage was done to the Police
Station before Mrs. Glendiming and her child were rescued
some four hours later by No. 2 Police Launch which fortunately
came
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WALTER LONG, M.P., &c.
&c. .
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