CHINESE AFFAIRS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 23 December 1913, Page 8

CHINESE AFFAIRS.

TROOPS CONCILIATED

BT CABLE—PRESS , ASSOCIATIOItr-COPYBIGHT. •■'••"'" (Received;: Dec. 23, 10.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Dec. 22. • :Genera],XlJhanghßiii}, Governor of Nankin^ has . buiH appointed military Inspectorpi the Southern Yangtsze, to Operate against th4>nothern Kiangsu reljels. His troops, however, threats ened to loot Nankin if he left, whereupon Changhsun obtained 300,000 dollars to pay them on the basis of their accompanying him. Fengkuochang, the .riewAGovernor, paid two-thirds, and the Chamber of Commerce one-third.