THE CHINESE REPUBLIC.
MUTINY OF TROOPS. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, PEKIN, April 13. Fifteen hundred troops mutinied at Nanking, owing to the non-payment of their wages. Tho outbreak occurred at midnight with dramatic suddenness. Looting and burning qf tho town continued for several hours. Tho villages were burned for miles around. Ton thousand loyal Cantonese troops invested tho disturber! area, and after fierce fighting drove the mutineers into tho barracks, killing fifty of them and disarming a thousand. Many were found in possession of loot, and were summarily executed. Similar minor outbreaks aro reported from tho Yangtso Valley. A GOVERNOR APPOINTED. (Received April 13, 10.0 a.m.) PEKIN, April 14. Choutzuchi, acting-Financo Minister, brother of the Now Zealand Chinese Consul, has been appointed Governor of Shantung. ,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143766, 15 April 1912, Page 3
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124THE CHINESE REPUBLIC. Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143766, 15 April 1912, Page 3
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