The Archive · 1937

SHANTUNG "REVOLT" REPORT DENIED

Gen. Liu To-chuan Fighting Japanese at Front Nanking, Oct, 9.

The report that Gen. Liu To-chuan, a former North-eastern army leader, is leading his troops in rebellion in Wuchenghsien, 45 miles south of Tehchow, North Shantung, and that a punitive force of the Central Army was sent to suppress the revolt is described in the capital to-day as "absolutely without foundation."

Gen. Liu and his troops, it is added, are now strongly resisting the Japanese forces in front-line positions at Huanghoyai, one station south of Tehchow, on the Tientsin-Pukow

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