TROUBLE IN CHINA
TROOPS THREATEN TO LOOT. Bx. Tolesraph—Preio Association—Copyright SHANGHAI, December 22. General Chang-hsun, Governor of Nanking, has been appointed military inspector of Southern Yang-tszo, and to operate against tho Northern Kiang-su rebels. His troops threatened to loot Nanking if he loft, whereupon General Chang-hsun obtained three hundred thousand dollars to pay them, on tho understanding that they would accompany him. Fong Kuo Chang, tho now Governor, paid two-thirds of this sum and tho Chamber of Commerce one-third of the money.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8612, 24 December 1913, Page 5
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