MUTINY IN NATIONALIST RANKS
CIVILIANS SUFFER DURING CON FXICT IN PUKOW.
AN IMPECUNIOUS ARMY,
sßy Telegraph-Press Assn.« Copy right.) (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Dec. 3. \ The non-payment of wages, coupled xrith a dislike of an order to proceed jvrith the s Cantonese to fight the revolting Ironside troops, precipitated a mutiny in a regiment of the 24th Division of the Nationalist Army, commanded by General Shih-Yusan, at Pukow, opposite Nanking, to-day. .■'. Soldiers are looting shops in the principal streets and fleeing to the surrounding districts. Other troops have been «&alled in to quell the mutiny, resulting in considerable shooting. ! In the outskirts of Pukow a number «£ civilians wore killed and several louso* boxned. The Pukow-Nanking ■; ferry service has been suspended.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1929, Page 5
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