CHINESE MUTINY
NATIONAL ARMY REGIMENT. Shanghai, December 3. The non-payment of -wages coupled with a dislike of the order to proceed with the Cantonese to fight the revolting Ironside troops precipitated a mutiny in a regiment of the 24th 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 district. Other troops have been called in to quell th? mutiny, resulting in considerable shooting on the outskirts of Pukow. A number of civilians were killed and several houses burned at Pukow. The Nanking ferry service has been suspended.
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Southland Times, Issue 20949, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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108CHINESE MUTINY Southland Times, Issue 20949, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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