CHINESE CIVIL WAR
GOVERNMENT’S SERIOUS PLIGHT. (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.) i* (Received December 6, 8 a.m.) SHANGHAI, December 5. There is a distinctly uneasy feeling in Nanking, following the troop mutiny at Pukow, the consensus'of opinion being that the position of the Government is serious. The belief is held that the mutiny was part of a nationwide plot to overthrow the Chiang Kai Sliek regime. The failure of the Kuominchun to capture Hankow precipitated the trouble, the original intention of the plotters being to attack Nanking, whilst Government troops occupied Honan, but Fingun Slang’s defeat upset the scheme. The mutineers are , preparing to make a stand, two hours’ train journey from Pukow, and are at present holding the Tientsin Pukow railway. They number thirty thousand. Chiang Kai Shek is rushing available troops from Nanking to the front, including special army personally maintained for the defence of Nanking, which hitherto has always been retained in the capital, thus indicating the seriousness of the situation.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1929, Page 7
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