CHINESE TROOPS MUTINY
BRITISH PEOPLE TAKEN ABOARD WARSHIP CITY PLUNGED IN PANIC Australian and N.Z. Press Association (United Service) \ Reed. 10.30 a.m. SHANGHAI, Friday. Government troops. comprising t several battalions stationed at Wuhu. a river port on the Lower Yangtse. in the Anwhei province, mutinied last night, and immediately commenced | looting, which they continued throughout the night, plunging the city into a panic. Frantic appeals for assistance from Japauese residents, numbering several hundred, brought the Japanese warships Fushimi and Hotsu to the scene. Naval forces were landed, and posted at the Japanese Consulate and residences. Other Japanese gunboats are en route. The cause of the mutiny is not certain. Anti-Nanking propagandists are blamed. Rebel forces are continuing to advance in fan-wise formation from the north toward the Yangtsze. Preliminary clashes have already been reported. A Wuhu message states that all British women and children have been taken aboard H.M.S. Cricket as a precautionary measure. Owing to the interruption of the communications, details are still lacking.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 798, 19 October 1929, Page 9
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