MUTINOUS CHINESE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 290, 6 December 1929, Page 9

MUTINOUS CHINESE

DESTRUCTION AT PUKOW LOYAL TROOPS KILLED SHANGHAI, Nov. 4. Further reports of foreigners arriving here from Nanking regarding the I’ukow mutiny show that all the administrative buildings were looted, top and bottom. Every door, window and desk was smashed. Ten new locomotives, two of which were armed, were seized and the railway officials forced to operate them at the revolver point. Loyal troops were surprised asleep in their billets. Many who offered resistance were killed and their bodies thrown on the roadside. Others disarmed. A punitive expedition has been despatched to Pukow from Nanking, and is now in pursuit of the retreating rebels. SITUATION SERIOUS A NATION-WIDE PLOT Received Dec. 6, 1 a.m. SHANGHAI, Dec. 5. A distinctly uneasy feeling prevails in Nanking following the troop mutiny at Pukow. The consensus of opinion being that the position of the Government is serious. The belief is held that the mutiny was part of a nation-wKie plot to overthrow the Chiang kai Shek regime. The failure of the Kuaminchun to capture Hankow precipitated the trouble, the original intention of the plotters being to attack Nanking whilst the Government troops were oc. cupied at Honan, but Fenk Auh Siang’s defeat upset the scheme. The mutineers are preparing to make a stand two hour’s train journey from Pukow and at present are holding the Tientsin-Pukow railway. They number 30,000. Chian kai Shek is rushing available troops from Nanking to the front, including his special army, personally maintained for the defence of Nanking which hitherto has always been retained in the capital, thus indicating the seriousness of the situation.