Second Edition. Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 45, 24 February 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. Great Britain

RIOT" AT SINGAPORE,

OFFICERS AND MEN KILLED.

a;m.> , . ■ ' ; Londolu February 23. The Press \riftes."that satisfaction •• at promotions which had beeri announced- a ’ .£idt among portions cff the iHiftu,Light)lnfantry at > Singapore 1 , 'bnt the. trouble was after’ serious' rioting, in which a number of officers and men were killed.

QUELLING THE DISTURBANCE.

36 KILLED : : : 10 WOUNDED.

(Received 12.55 p.m.) London, February 23,

The Prijss--'Bureau states': The local at Singapore, thirty-sixth Sikhs, and landing parties from the British and Allied ships assisted in quelling the riot. Some of the rioters were killed, bub all is now quiet. There was no destruction of property. ; '-j

Three captains, two lieutenants, fourteen British soldiers and sailors, three Natives, and fourteen civilians were kilted, an<i ten soldiers were wounded.' :■■■ . m-' > - - Reuter's Tokio correspondent states that Japanese ; and French marines landed, and, after fighting, half the rioters surrendered. A later disturbance was completely quelled. Some, of the Japanese were wounded.

NEW ZEALANDERS AMONG THE

KILLED.

Wellington, February 24

A message was received in Nelson last week by relatives that Mr Woolcombe ,his wife, and a. mechanic of the Eastern Cable Co’s, staff at Singapore had been killed. No particulars were allowed to transpire as. to how they lost their lives, but in, the light of to-day’s cable re the rioting at Singapore, it is possible it was in the riot there. Mr WoOlcombo was an old Nelson boy, and only a few months ago married Miss Michie, daughter of a former Dunedin manager of the Bank of New Zealand. These particulars are now’ published by permission of the censorship.