Word: tinkler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buildings of the International Settlement from the factory-stacks of Pootung. Among its grimy factories stands the British-owned China Printing & Finishing Co., a cotton mill where Chinese workers last week were on strike. Guarding the plant while Chinese workers looked on was 45-year-old Briton R. M. Tinkler, a former Shanghai police inspector. When 40 Chinese strikebreakers attempted to enter the mill, a fight followed. Suddenly a landing party of Japanese marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested, but Japanese marines batted him over the skull with a gun-butt. What happened...
...Japanese beat everybody to the protest, complained to British Consul General Sir Herbert Phillips against R. M. Tinkler's "lawlessness toward a Japanese uniform." Said an Embassy spokesman: "That Japanese marines should have disarmed Tinkler and manhandled him is to be expected under the circumstances. We are surprised he was not killed on the spot." British were investigating...