THREAT TO LOOT.
CHINESE SOLDIERS AND THEIK PAY. (Received Dec. .23, 11.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI,'Doc. 22. General Chang-lisun, Governor of Nanking, baa been appointed military inspector of- Southern Yang-tse, and to operate -against the Northern Kiang-su rebels. ilis troops threatened to loot Ranking if he left, whereupon General Chang-hsun obtained three hundred thousand dollars to pay them, on the understan'ling that tl.ey would accompany him. Feng Ruo Chang, the new Governor paid two-thirds of this sum ana the Chamber of Commerce cine-third ef the money.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 December 1913, Page 5
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