THE NAVAL MUTINY AT SHANGHAI .
FURTHER PARTICULARS By Telegraph—Press Association—CoDjriftht Shanghai, December 8. 1 Thirty young revolutionaries, somo of whom were formerly naval students, boarded the Chao So_ at dusk, and received permission to inspect tho vessel. They suddenly drew revolvers, seized the commander, secured the koy of tho magazine, and over-awed the crew, killing four and wounding five. ! i'hey then ordered the gunners to firo on the arsenal, but the gunners elevated their guns only, and aid not hit. It was unfortunate that the -foreign settlement received effective shots. The warships in tho harbour refrained from firing on tho Chao So, but tlie shore batteries opoued fire, and dispatched boarding parties, which, however, returned before the man hunt. Three well-placed shots at daybreak absorbed the oozing courage of the revolutionaries, who oscaped in a launch. (Reo. December 8 k 10 p.m.) Toklfl, December 8. ■J R P*i, ws sent soYcral warships to AhanshUi
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19151209.2.25.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2639, 9 December 1915, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
154THE NAVAL MUTINY AT SHANGHAI . Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2639, 9 December 1915, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in