The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
Surgeon in Service of Brit ish Admiralty Gives De- tails of Mutiny in Singa- pore in February
MUTINEERS BEGAN
 SYSTEMATIC HUNT
 FOR WHITE PEOPLE
Many Murdered Before Re- volt Is Suppressed-Mu-
 tinied Because They Couldn't Fight Germans

London. April Ie.-tCorrespondence of the Associated Presa)--Dyak head hunters are trailing survivors of the Indian regiment which mutinied In scpoy mutinecrs stilI were at large in the dense junsles surrounding Sing spore when the Dyaks were brought In to hunt them down and since fhc head hunters arc nycrsc to bringing In their prisoners alive h Is not known how much the number has been r~- duccd.
 pr. Warren McNeil. surgeon on Inc Pacific Mail liner Nile, now In the service of the British admiralty ns transport. has arrived in London with the detailed story of the mutiny. The Nile has been sent 10 Singapore to take the regiment which mutinied to Hens- kong. where 1t was to do garrison duty.
 Dr. McNeil in his story of the mu- tiny says
 Our ship arrived at Singapore 2l
 
 sibility of capture by the mutineers as we would have been moored to the docks where the fighting began if we lad been on time Evidence secured from members of the mutinous rer.- ment shows that the outbreak was timed for midnight of the day when It actually began. At that hour tue Indians planned to rob the ammunition motor trucks lined up at the docks but an impatient mutineer attempted to steal box of cartridges at o'clock Tn the afternoon. A white officer, who detected him, was shot down. Breaks Like ThundercIap Then the trouble broke like thun- derclap. The Sepoys in formation ready to proceed to the docks. fell out and began to fire indiscriminately at every white person.
 The mutineers began systematic hunt for the whites. Among the first civilians to fall were Dr. Whittel, tfe best known surgeon in Singapore, and his wife. The warning 10 the whites spread rapidly and many were saved who would certainly have been mas sacred it the outbreak had taken place at the hour planned.
 The goo SepoNs concerned in the up- rising soon scattered over the city and out of the eemparatlvely small white population, 5o victims fell before the fire of the fanatical mutineers on Ire first day, The second day l500 refa- gees. chiefly women and children. arr rived on board our ship.
 Women Weeping
 Many of the women were weeping for murdered relatives and others were nearly crazy with anxiety for their kinsmen who had pluckily volunteered to remain behind to aid in hunting down the murderers.
 Driven from the limits of Singa- pore. the mutneers took refuge it. the Jungles and the soldiers are finding It difficult to disodge them. The captured SepoYs were tried by court martial aad l understand quite q number of them were shot. "ln their testimony all of The nut tineers agreed the cause of their dis- satisfaction was that they were about to be sent to Horssons for garrison nuty instead of being sent 10 the front. as they desired. but white inhabitants of the town believe it was a German plot. as most of the slain and captured mutineers had gold in their pockets and one of their first acts was to res lease the German war prisoners. some of whom escaped, among these being the first officer of the celebrated cruiser Emden.'