TROUBLE AT SINGAPORE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2394, 25 February 1915, Page 5

TROUBLE AT SINGAPORE

■ REGRETTABLE LOSS"-OFIM •. i ' London, JMonarySS. The ''Press Bureaa states thai: dis-i satisfaction over promotions resulted in ; a riot by portion of tho sth Light In- '■ fantry (Indian Army) at Singapore. The M outbreak was guellod after serious riot-% ing, in which a number o£ officers and;! men were killed. ' /■' Local volunteers a± Singapore, ths • 36th Siklis, and landing parties fajm' ' British ana Allied ships agisted, rim quelling the riot. • ■ Sonto of the rioters wer&ikilled. .All! • is now quiet. , There was m> destine tion of property. .t Three captains, two lieutenants,. four-{ . teen British soldiers and sailors, threff .' natives, and fourteen civilians were killed, and ten. soldiers wounded. Renter's Tokio correspondent < states."; ~ that Japanese and ■ French: marinea , landed after the fighting. Half the ; ' rioters surrendered. The disturbance _ later was completely quelled. Some 08~ tie Japanese were wounded.' V [A message to the same 'effect. hasA fcean received' from the High Commis* sonar in London;]' '" ' • " ' r/.v The sth Light Infantry Regiment, of ; the Indian Army ■ was' raised in"" 1803.-i Its first battalion consists of eight com-' panies of Mussalm&ns of the Eastern. Punjab and Hindustan, and the' 2nd' Battalion of eight companies of Sa.t& (from the Indian North-West)

TRAGEDY OF THE RiOT. J.... - NEW: ZEALANDERS AMONGST THE KILLED. ■ — Nelson, February 2i. 'A! message was_ reoeived in Nelson; • last week by relatives that Mr. Woolly oombe, his wife,, and a mechanic of' thai Eastern Cable Company's staff at Singapore, had been killed. No par-: ■ ticulars were allowed to transpire ass to how they lost their Uvea, but in tho' light of to-day's cablegram regarding;, the mutiny at Singapore, it is possible that it was in the riot there. Mr. Woolkombe an old Nelson boy, andonly .a few months ago married Miss Michie, daughter of .a former general manager of the Bank of New These particulars are now published byj; permission of the censor. • .