AFFAIRS IN CHINA
CABLE NEWS
(United Prets Association — By Bh> trie Telegraph — Copyright J
MUTINY OF TROOPS
FIERCE FIGHTING.
(Received Last -Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
PEKING, April 13. Fifteen hundred troops mutinied at Nanking, owing- to the non-payment of wages. The outbreak occurred at midnight, with dramatic suddenness. Tlie looting and burning of the town was continued for several hours. ' Villages were burned for mile-. around. Ten housand loyal Oantoncse troops invested the disturbed area, and, after fierce fighting, drove the mutineers to their barracks. They killed fifty and disarmed a thousand. ' Many were found in possesion of loot, and were summarily executed. Similar manor outbreaks are reported from the Yangtse Valley.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10608, 15 April 1912, Page 5
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