LIVING ON A VOLCANO
WIDESPREAD REVOLT TN CHINA FEARED
MUTINIES AMONG TROOPS
By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopypftht. (Rec. June 21, 9.55 p.m.) Peking, June 20.
The Dragon Festival has passed, and tho Government remains afloat, but foreigners at many points of the interior feel that they are living on a volcano, which any day may burst into flames. The Government has failed to pay interest on her domestic loan, but an immediate financial crisis has beenaverted by mortgaging the future. Symptomatic of the times are mutinies at Ichang and Wuchang, where native troops ran amuck, robbing, burning, and killing indiscriminately. Several hundred innocent Chinese were massacred, and considerable damage done to foreigners’ property. One mile of the principal streets of Wuchang were laid waste. The mutineers were allowed to escape in trains packed with loot. The troops in other districts were temporarily pacified by tho part payment of arrears, but they are likely to join a widespread revolt at any moment. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 229, 22 June 1921, Page 7
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162LIVING ON A VOLCANO Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 229, 22 June 1921, Page 7
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