FRESH OUTBREAK IN CHINA
MUTINY OF NATIVE TROOPS
FOREIGNERS FORCED TO FLEE
LOOTING BY THE MUTINEERS
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian Press Association. Shanghai, Jan. 27.
Mutiny has broken out in a division of native troops, the remnants of the ex-Govcrnor Chang - Chung - Chang’s army, stationed at Lungkow in the Shangtung province.
The cities Lingkow, Hwanghsien and Tengchowfu have been sacked and the foreign residents compelled to flee for safety aboard two Japanese warships. Twenty thousand Nationalist troops has been dispatched from Ninghai to quash, the rebellion.
The mutineers looted every building, emptied the armoury, and killed three high military officers and the chairman of the Hwanghsien Chamber of Commerce.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1929, Page 9
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