Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
REVOLT SPREADING
IN CHINA AS LOYAL
SOLDIERS MUT|NY
Nationalist Government Hard
Hit as Chang Kai-Shek
Becomes Attack Center.
REPORT SAYS PRESIDENT
HAS RESIGNED HIS POST
Four Large Cities Placed Under
Martial Law as Troops Are
Depleted.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, December 7.-Chinas S
Nationalist government staggered to-
| night as the armed revolt against its
authority became widespread.
President Chang Kai-Shek, the gen.
eralissimo who three years ago led the
Cantonese northward in great march
that subjugated all elements into uni
fled government, was the special object
Of attack. An unverified dispatch from
Paris asserted that he had resigned and
been replaced Professionally by Tang
Yen-Kai, head of the governments exc
cutive council, and that Yen Hsi-Shan,
so-called model governor of Shansi
province, has become generalissimo.
Later reports, however, declared all
sources agreed that Chang Kai-Shek
was still continuing to direct affairs at
Nanking.
Shanghai. Nanking, Canton and Han
kow were placed under martial law by
the harassed government as they were
depleted of troops to engage the rebel
lious forces threatening them.
Foreigners in Danger.
The British cruiser Suffolk was or
dered from Shanghai to Marking, where,
it was said, it would take aboard British
women and children because of criti-
cal situation in the capital city due to
the asserted mutiny Of three govern
ment regiments there.
The railroads leading westerly from
Shanghai to Nanking and southerly
from Shanghai to Hankchow were cut
lOXy tim
progressed. Reports, hampered by sew
cred wires and government censorship,
filtered in, giving accounts of increaS-
ingly large defections of government
troops as the magnitude of the rebellion
grew.
Against the Pukow mutineers. who
had moved northward from that city
to form a mobilization base of other
rebels, the government was said to be
this. other areas had been drawn upon
and in these weakened areas revolt
sprang up.
General Dismissed.
Gen. Tang Seng-Chi, leader of the
government forces against the Kuo-
minchun (people's army troops re-
Gently active in Honan ana Hupeh
Provinces, was ordered dismissed and
arrested for circulating telegram criti-
cizing the government policies and eX-
pressing sympathy with rebels. The
order of arrest was said to have turned
10000 more soldiers against the gov
ernment in Honan Province.
Nationalist troops were defeated at
ChangchoW, 100 miles from Shanghai,
when they attempted to disarm the
4th Division, whose loyalty was
doubted. The 4th Division turned
rebel killed manv NationaliStc apd
tore up the railroad tracks between
Shanghai and Marking
About Canton opposing government
and rebel forces rested upon their arms,
the Nationalist awaiting the threatened
assault against the city. The lines were
few miles north and west of Canton
From Marking the Nationalist gov
ernment formally approved the pre-
liminary agreement between Manchuria
and Russia for settlement of the Chi
nese Eastern Railway dispute, which
Soviet troops upon Manchurian soil.
See Peace Closer.
Dispatches from Moscow said the
government newspaper IzveStia today
said 1t regarded the telegraph ac-
ceptance by Gov. Chang Hsueh-
Liang Of the Nikolsk- Ussuriisky pro-
tocol as new step by the Mukden
government toward peaceful termina-
ton OF the conflict over the Chinese
Eastern Railway.
Although many distractions yet re-
mained to be overcome, it said that a
basis for regulation Of the dispute had
been found by the plenipotentiaries of
the Soviet and Mukden govern
ments despite interference by certain
powers"