MUTINOUS TROOPS
111 REVOLT AGAINST NANKING JAPANESE WARSHIPS ON SCENE Pres* Association—By Telegraph—CopyrijiS* . SHANGHAI, October IS. (Received October 19,. at 10.30 a.m.V Government troops, comprising several battalions stationed > at Wuhu (a river port -on tho Lower Yangtse, in Anwhei Province), mutinied last,night and immediately' commenced looting, which they continued throughout the night, plunging the city into panic. Frantic appeals for assistance from the Japanese residents, numbering several hundred, brought the Japanese warships Fnshirai and Hotsu. Naval forces were landed and posted at the Japanese consulate and residences. Other Japanese gunboats are en route. The cause of the mutiny is not certain, but anti-Nanking propagandists are blamed. The rebel forces are continuing te advance in fanwise formation from the north toward the Yangtse. Preliminary clashes have already been reported. Australian Press Association. BRITISH 'WOMEN AND CHILDREN SAFE. SHANGHAI, October IS. (Received October 19, at 10.30, a.m.V A Wuhu messages states that all the British women and children have been taken on board H.M.S. Cricket as a precautionary measure. Owing to interruption of the communications, details are lacking.—United Service.
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Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 14
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