UNPAID SOLDIERS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 January 1925, Page 7

UNPAID SOLDIERS

LOOT CHINESE SHOPS. BY CABLE—PEBSS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. (Received Jan. 3 .1.45 p.m.) PEKIN, Jan. 2. A mandate grants iiti amnesty to all prisoners excepting Tsdokitri, who must lace a public trial bv the members of Parliament, 'i'ho'.se concerned in Tsaokun’s election will be placed before the forthcoming national conference, and the offenders charged with robbery, murder, rape, arson afid the breaking of dykes. The mandate says that the disturbance for the last 13 years, and the abuse for fvhich. the military is responsible, resulted irt the- destitution of the people, aifd many persons have been led to offend against the laws. A general amnesty has been proclaimed to mark the epochal event in the lives of the people and the history of the Chinese Republic. Anothet mandate abolishes the College of Marshals. ChihsiehyUan lias Unexpectedly left Nanking. He is taking refuge , in Shanghai. After bis departure Chihsiehyuan’s bodyguard, who had not received their pay, looted and burned a number of*tlie largest silk stores there, doing damage to the extent of 500,000 dollars. It is reported that a detachment of American marines Landed at Nanking to protect the foreign residential district, as the danger is not yet over.