The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-03-23
GERMANSPLOTTED
SINGAPORE MUT|NY
Of PUNJAB TROOPS
Missionary, Passenger on Per-
sia Blames Prisoners at
( Detention Camp - .
81 RESIDENTS KILLED: 4&.
WOMEN SENT TO SHIPS
Men From French and Japanese
Cruisers Come to Res
cue Of the City

First direct news or the Indian mu'
tiny in singapore reached Honolulu
yesterday with the steamer Persia. 1t
was brought by Rev. @. G. UnderhiIl
ard w. A. Wells, both missionaries.
Mr.. Wells was In Singapore as teacher
IN the Anglo Chinese school; Mr.. I'm.
derhill was there On route to Hong.
kong. ~ I-1 ]slh ste. 49,. "a n
Mr.. Underhill made the fat state
ment that he believed the mutiny was
inspired by the Germans. Fifty
escaped from the detention camp at the
time, he said, although government has
offered rewards for only seventeen.
The men at the camp were civilians
largely, but there were some members
Of the crew of the cruiser Emden. Five
or six Of these disappeared, and the
government has been especially anxious
to catch them.
Muttneers stili at Large ~, y 4
The Reverend Oechsii. pastor Of the
Enplish rehurch. stated that tiftv Ger.
mans had escaped. Mr.. Underhill. re.
peatine this statement, laid particular
blame for the mutiny ON a German
named Deane. who had been released on
parole several times by the British. and
each time had made trouble and had
been rearrested. p * $50 y !
The missionaries left Singapore Feb.
ruary % for HongkonR. AT that time
$50 Of the mutineers were believed
still to be at large, Mr.. Underhill said,
although the British suppressed most
Of the facts and IL was only common
rumor with which the men were nc.
auainted. Mr.. Undefhill placed the
number of Europeans killed at ATTY.
four. How MANY of the Indians had
been killed he did not know. Mr.. Wells
said that TWENTY-FIVE were executed
the FIRST day of the trouble.
EnRiish shot In Streets
Five officers were shot the first day.
Mr.. Wells said. More English were
shot down on the streets, and then
came the funeral of TWENTY-FIVE. TWEEN
ty.three or twenty-four Europeans.
Tuesday morning il0 men from the
British shin Oadrnus came ashore to aid
in. protecting che city, and one sailor,
of these was killed. Mt., Wells, infor.
nation was that 900 mutineers still
were at large when he left Singapore,
February %. -. ...lr,- y :,
Varying causes were given for the
uprising. One report had Il that the
Indians mutfned because thew were TO
be sent to the battlefields Of Europe;
another because they were not to be
sent. still another had ii that they.
were angry because thew were to be
moved to Hongkong-and this report
seems nbstantiated somewhat NV the
fact that the steamer Nile. withdrawn
from the Pacific service for a trans.
port, still was at Singapore when
Messrs. UnderhiI and Wells departed.
-
that n had been' intended To convey
troopa Ia Honpkon0
Nile ghelters Non Combatants
The Nile also f,oured as a shelter for
1000 women and Children, Word came
Tuesday, February l6. that the situa
tion. while being relieyed WINS sncb no
TO require that the women and chill.
dren he sent aboard shins in the bar.
Dor. and thew were sent To the Nile.
They overerowded that sbip. and next
day some were sent to the Golconda.
Thew spent TUESDAY and Wednesday
aboard the ships.
Tuesday, the second day of the Su-
tiny. was the worst dav X .eems PIE
American consul. general Mt Singapore
was authority for the statement that
he saw twenty.four persons buried
Wednesday, February IL. Other re.
ports were that TWENTY-FIVE or twenty
three were buried that day. Most Of
the Europeans met their deaths through
sniping by the soldiers, who hung about
the outskirts of the city.
Lack of leadership alone saved Singa-
pore, The mutineers had no head
They scattered Had they held to-
gether, the, Persia's passengers stated,
nothing could have saved the city, al,
though, Of course, ii would have been
retaken later-but, in the meantime, it
would have been sacked and a carnival
of butchery might have ensued.
Casualty Last Unknown ~
Report in Singapore said that the