The Archive · 1911

Nanking and Lanchow

MUTINOUS TROOPS — (Through Rewter'e Agency.)

Renter's telegrams received yestorday state that the trouble at Naoking is due to the demand by the new troops for ammunition owing to their fear of an attack, and that the Viceroy refuses to give it them. When they were ordered to leave the city, they objected.

Six thousand troops at Lanchow are reported to have refused to entrain for Hankow, and memorialize ed the Government, urging that an immediate constitution be granted.

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