MUTINY IN CHINA
NATIONALIST TROOPS. NON-PAYMENT OF WAGES. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SHANGHAI, December 3. The non-payment of wages, coupled with the dislike of the order to proceed with the Cantonese to fight the revolting w ironside " troops, precipitated a mutiny in a regiment of the Twenty-fourth Division of the Nationalist army commanded by General Shih Yu-san at Pukow, opposite Nanking, to-day. The soldiers are looting the shops in the principal streets and fleeing to the surrounding districts.
Other troops liavo beAi called in to quell the mutiny, resulting in considerable shooting on the outskirts of Pukow. A number of civilians have been killed and several houses have been burned. The Pukow-Nanking ferry service has been suspended.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20892, 5 December 1929, Page 10
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