AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13892, 24 December 1913, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

OPERATIONS AGAINST NORTH-

EltN REBELS

UNPAID TROOPS AT NANKING

THREAT TO LOOT THE CITY.

Shanghai, Dec. 22

General Chang-Hsun, Governor of Nanking, has been appointed military inspector of the southern Yangtze ? to operate against the northern Kiangsu rebels.

His troops threatened to loot Nanking if he left, whereupon ChangHsun obtained 30,000 dollars pay for them on the basis of their accompanying him. Feng-Kuo-Chang, the new Governor, paid two-thirds of this sum and the Chamber of Commerce onethird.