MUTINY MENACES NANKING REGIME

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7085, 6 December 1929, Page 7

MUTINY MENACES NANKING REGIME

Loyalists Surprised

PUKOW ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDINGS RANSACKED

PART OF NATION-WIDE PLOT. United Press Association. —By Electrii Telegraph—Copyright. SHANGHAI, Dec. 4. Foreigners arriving here from Nanking supply details regarding the Pukow nwj^iny. It is shown that all administrative buildings were looted ,top and bottom, and every door, window and desk smashed. Ten now locomotives, two of which were arnied, were seized and the railway officials forced to operate them, at the revolver point. The loyal troops were surprised asleep in their billets, and many who offered resistance were killed and their bodies thrown on the roadside. The others were disarmed.

A punitive expedition has been despatched to Pukow from Nanking and is now in pursuit of the retreating rebels.

Obiang-Kai-Shek Sends Out Personal Forces

REBELS NUMBER 30,000.

Received Thursday, Midnight, SHANGHAI, Deo. 5. There is a distinctly uneasy feeling in Nanking following the troops mutiny at Pukow. Tho consensus of opinion is that the position of the Government is serious and the belief is held that tho mutiny was part of a nation-wide plot to overthrow the Chiang-kai-shok regime. The failure of Kuominohun to capture Hahkow precipitated the trouble, the original intention of the plotters being to attack Nanking whilst the Government troops were occupied in Honan but Feng-yuh-siang’s defeat upset the scheme. The mutineers are preparing to mako a stand at a spot two hours T train journey from Pukow and at present are holding the Tientsin-Pukow railway. The forces number 30,000.

Chiiang-kai-shek is rushing all available troops to the Nanking front, including a special army he has personally. maintained for tho defence of Nanking, which hitherto has always been retained in the capital, thus indicating the seriousness of the situation.