MUTINY AT PUKOW
NATIONALIST REGIMENT
CIVILIAN CASUALTIES
(Eeceived 4th December, 11 a.m.)
SHANGHAI, 3rd December. Non-payment of wages, coupled with a dislike of the order to proceed to Canton to fight the revolting "Iron side" troops precipitated a mutiny of a regiment of the 24th Division of the National Army, commanded by General Shihyusan.
At Pukow, opposite Nanking, to-day soldiers are looting shops in the principal streets, and fleeing into the surrounding districts. Other troops have been called in to quell the mutiny, resulting in considerable shooting in the outskirts of Pukow, in which a number of civilians were killed. Several houses wore burned. Tho Pukow-Nanking terry service is suspended.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 11
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110MUTINY AT PUKOW Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 11
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