PUNITIVE EXPEDITION PURSUING
THE REBELS.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Dee. 4.
Further reports by foreigners arriving here from Nanking, regarding the Pukow mutiny, show that all the administrative buildings were looted, top and bottom. Every door, window and desk was smashed.
Ten new locomotives, two of which were, armed, were seized and railway officials were' forced to operate them at the revolver point. Loyal troops were surprised asleep in their billets. Many who offered resistance were killed and their bodies thrown on the roadside. 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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Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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