CHINESE TROOPS REBEL
A DRAMATIC OUTBREAK. LOOTING AND ARSON. . By Cable—Prese Association—Copyright Received 14, 5.5 p.m. Pekin, April 13. Fifteen hundred troops mutinied at Hanking, owing to .the non-payment of their wages. The outbreak occurred at midnight with dramatic suddenness. Looting and burning of the town continued for several houTS. The villages were burned for miles around. Ten thousand loyal Cantonese troops invested th'e disturbed area, and after fierce fighting drove the mutineers into the barracks, killing fifty of them and disarming a thousand. Many were found in possession of loot, and were summarily executed. Similar minor outbreaks are reported from the Yangtse Valley.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 244, 15 April 1912, Page 5
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104CHINESE TROOPS REBEL Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 244, 15 April 1912, Page 5
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