A REGIMENT MUTINIES
THE PILLAGING OF PUKOW TEN LOCOMOTIVES SEIZED FATE OF LOYAL TROOPS By Telegraph-Press Assn-Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received Dec. 5* 9.30 a.in.) Shanghai, Dee. 4. Further reports given, by foreigners arriving lierc from Nanking regarding the Piikrnv regiment’s mutiny show that all the administrative* building were looted from top and to butt-asm, (every door, vvhnfow and desk being smashed. Ten new locomotives, two of whic-li wore armed, wer© seized and the railway officials forced to opiate them at the point of the revolver. Loyal troops were surprised when asleep in their billets and many who offered resistance were killed, their bodies being thrown on to the roadside. The others were disarmed.
A punitive expedition has been despatched to Pukow from Nanking and is now in pursuit of the retreating rebels.
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2380, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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