Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-05-17
Pacific Mail Surgeon Well.
Known In Honolulu Empha-
-. sizes Serious Situation

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;, Many Honolulu people know DIR.
Warren Mcneil. the genial surgeon of
the Pacific Mail liner Nile. The Nile
was Impressed into service as Brit,
ish transport and DIR. Mcneil went
along. .a.'5 49,.
IN London recently he told the in
side story of the big Sepoy mutfny
at Singapore Hints OF it had reaciie
Honolulu by the cable but as DR.. nc
Neil tells Il, the seriousness of this
outbreak has never before reached the
world.
A New York paper publishes the
following from London:
LONDON, April 16.-Dyak head,
hunters are trailing the survivors of
the Indian regiment which mutinfed
in Singapore last February.
Forty of theses Sepoy mutineers
were still at large in the dense jun
giles surrounding Singapore when the
Dyaks were brought in to hunt them
down, and since the headhunters are
averse to bringing In their prisoners
alive, II is not known how much the
number has been reduced.
DR.. Warren Mcneil OF San Fran
cisco, surgeon ON the Pacific Mail
liner Nile, which is now In the SER
vice OF the British admiralty as a
transport, has arrived in London with
the detailed. story of the nfutiry, his
ship having reached Singapore while
the trouble was at its height. The
Nile had been sent TO Singapore to
take the regiment which mutfnied to
Hcngkong, where it was to do garri-
son duty.
DR. Mcneil tells the following story
Of the mutiny:
Strip Late, Escaped Outbreak.
Our ship arrived at Singapore "a
hours late, thereby escaping the pos
sibility of capture by the mutineers,
as we would have been moored to the
docks where the lighting began If we
had been OH time. Evidence procured
from members OF the mutinous regi-
iment shows that the outbreak was
timed for midnight Of the day when
IL began. AT that hour the Indians
planned to rob the ammunition motor
trucks lined up at the docks awaiting
the arrival of transports, but an impa-
tient mutineer attempted to steal
box of cartridges from truck at 4
O'Clock in the afternoon. He was de-
tected .fty;sone of the white officers,
who Was shot deYngYken hesattempta
ed fotpFeyent the E3E 1T,
Then the trouble broke like al
thunderclap. The Sepoys, who we're
in formation ready to proceed to the
docks, fell out and began to fire indis-
criminately at eyerx White person. in
sight, The Sikh MANNERS of the regi.
ment remained 1oyal. but, without
their own officers to command them,
did nothing u stop the mutineers.
The Chimes I'd Lay inhabitants.
retired TO- the homes and the mu-
tineers made no attempt to modest
them, bpf beG4p a >Eysten1atic hunt
for the whites. Among the first civil
ans to fall we're DR.. Whittel the best
known surgeon in Singapore, and his
wife. who we're driving in their motor
car. The warning to the whites spread
rapidly, and many we're saved who
would certainly have been massacred
If theN outbreak had taken place at
the hour planned by the leaders.
Found 81 White Victims.
The plan to seize the ammunition
IN the trucks was entirely successful
and the mutineers were well supplied
with cartridges. The 200 Sepoys con-
cerned In the uprising soon scattered
over the city, and. out of the compare
lively small white population, 81 vic
Tins fell before the fire of the fanati-
cal mutineers on the first day. The
second day, 1900 refugees, chiefly
women and children. arrived on board
our ship, and the scene was pathetic
beyond my powers of description.
Many Of the women were weeping
for murdered relatives, and others
were nearly crazy with anxiety for
their male relatiyes, who. had plnckily
behind to aid in hunting
down the murderers.
: "TwO Japanese cruisers, the French
cruiser Montcalm and the Russian
cruiser Creole landed ma
rines, and did good work in hunting
the mutineers. The refugees were re-
cool and seemed anxious to
return to their homes, although many
Of the Sepoys were still at large, with
rifles and plenty of shells in their pos
session. The celebrated botanical
gardens of the town proved a favorite
lurking place for them, and it was
not safe to walk in the gardens for
several weeks after conditions be-
came normal in the city.
Matineers Hide In Jungle.
Driven from the limits of Singa-
pore, the mutineers took refuge in the
thiek, swampy jungles' which surround |
he city. and the soldiers are finding /
t difficult task to dislodge them.
"A fayorite ruse of a mutineeF when I
hard pressed by his pursuers is to I