CHINESE IN REVOLT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 17, 20 January 1916, Page 7

CHINESE IN REVOLT.

- . ■.-= c EXCITEMENT AT SHANGHAI. Intetme excitement prevail = 1 at Shang- , »M while the E. and A. mail steamer St ■--•as, which arrived at Sydney last , w «k, was in the China port, owing to an outbreak of mutiny among the crews of we Chinese warships. China had a big , fl eet of small gsnboats at the port, and suddenly some revolutionaries amongst *ne crews mutinied, and turned »he ships' P ls * on the town. One of the gunboats steamed close to the St. Albans, firing at tte fortu and shore batteries, without, however, doing mnch damage. She shells, according to an eye-witness, 6eemed to ™id everywhere biit where the gunners

"it-iaiied, and a couple exploded in the rrench settlement, but no European -was ■"•4 or injured. The greatest excite?x& prevailed along the m there -was no retnrn of shots front the shore. This, jfcis explained, was dne. Principally to the fact that only hai*F the. tt fnlud mutinied, and the authorities **<-. to spare tho loyal men on board«cre was no actnal street fighting ™Ue the 6t. Albans was there, but jnst Previous to her arrival a Chinese admiral •? - teen shot dead in the city. Canton, "was stated, was seething with rebeljWn- andithe Cantonese being almost all I and supporters- oi .&_-=?»*■