THE TANTAH INCIDENT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 14097, 26 June 1906, Page 7

THE TANTAH INCIDENT.

A SPECIAL TRIBUNAL. United Press Association—By Eleotrio . Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, June 24. A detachment of cavalry, with fifty policemen and a special tribunal, has started for Tantah to try the murderers of Captain Bull. The “ Pall Mall Gazette ” states that Lord Cromer ordered the exhumation of Captain Bull’s body, and that it is reported that the post-mortem examination proved that death had been caused by sunstroke. (Received June 25, 11.42 p.m.) CAIRO, June 25. Colonel Bull’s apoplexy was accelerated by concussion during the mobbing, which, began before the floor blazed. Previous shooting expeditions had not been resented. (While a body of British troops was marching from Cairo to Alexandria, five officers entered a village near Tantah to shoot pigeons. An official instigated the villagers to surround them with guns and assault them with bludgeons. Captain Bull, of the InniskiiUngs, succumbed to his injuries, and two other officers wore badly hurt. The Cairo correspondent of the “ Daily Mail ” stated that the village notables invited the officers to pi|reon-shooting. The villagers interfered, and tried to disarm the "officers. A threshing floor at that moment happening: to take fire, the natives unjustifiably blamed s .and attacked the officers.)