CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 March 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

[eIEOXBIC TEI/EGBAPH —COPTBIGHT.] LFKR PKEBB ASSOCIATION.]

(Received This Day 9.30 a.m.)

THE SINGAPORE OUTBREAK

Sydney, This Day

The steamer- Mataram from Singapore brings details of the recent rioting. It started at the Ting Ling barlacks outside the town whore fourteen Germans were interned in charge of a mixed guard of native and white troops No doubt it was organised by the Germans as one of the ringleaders of the mutineers, afterwards shot, was found in possession of £100 in German money. It was intended to start at four in the morning, but one of the white officers discovered the plot, causing the mutineers to act immediately. The officer telephoning the news to Singapore- was shot dead and the native guard then shot the white guard and advanced on the city. About twenty whites were killed in,the first half hour. The first news of the outbreak at Singapore was the arrival of a motor car containing a gentleman and hie wife — tbe former dead and the wife wounded. En route they had" been -fired on and the husband placed his wife in the bottom of the car and shielded her with his own body. Volunteers were called out and messages sent to a British warship which landed a large party. The fighting lasted all night and next day the FrencH, Japanese and Russian warships arrived and landed men. All the male civilians of the place capable of bearing arms were called out and the authorities took charge of several small steamers and placed the women and children on board. The rioters eventually were checked. Numbers of them crossed to Jahore and one boatload was drowned en route. The Sultan of Jahore captured most of the refugees and handed them over to tli<? Singapore authorities. Some of the interned Germans were recaptured. One, supposedly largely responsible for the oiitnYoak, a well-known business man. was not recaptured and 'we thousand dollars reward was offered for his arrest.