The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-05
MISSIONARIES ARE
 SAFEAT PAD T|NGFU
Damage From LOOters Was
 Very Extensive
TEEN TsiN IS QUIET
Reported Presence of Troops Near Foreign Concessions Causes Ex citement-Powers Strength
 ening Troops in China

Peking, March 5.AAn American mission ary doctor who arrived here from the district below Pao Ting Flu. which has been the center of disturbances for sew eral days. says Pao Ting Flu is in state of desolation. Everywhere buildings had been burned and shops footed. The dis turbances lasted three days and the dam age probably is more extensive than at Picking or Tien Tsin.
 From Pao Ting Flu the American doctor came to Picking by train, having left secretly. A few foreigners and Chinese officials accompanied him. Most of the missionaries remain in Pao Ting Flu, in- cludng the women. They have been of great service in attending the wounded. So far as could be learned no missionaries or foreigners suffered injury. Below Pao Ting Flu the railway is entirely in the hands of the mutineers, who compel the trainmen to move the trains at their oroer.
 Orders of Mutineers
 The mutinous soldier leaders have is- sued three orders.
 l. That foreigners should not be inter- fered with
 2 That there should be no killing.
 3. That there should be no burning.
 The obeyed only the first order, how ever
 Not many persons were killed, but fires were started everywhere. When the loot ing was completed the mutineers proceed ed south seeking other towns and infect ing other garrisons with the spirit of re- bellion.
 The commander of the British troops at Feng Tai has received reports that the mutineers. who were driven off Sunday, have been reinforced and are moving down the railway. The Inniskilling Fusi- leers, who are guarding that section, are therefore being shifted to advantageous positions.
 It is reliably reported that Yuan Shi Kai has brought into Peking a new body guard from his home province of Honan. He, shifts his troops about Peking almost daily. one giving the old style troops com mand, and the next detaining them fin barracks and leaving the police and gendarms in control.
 Manchus Proving Loyal
 The police are mostly Manchus and the Manchu regiments are proving more loyal than the others. The imperial guard on the night of the outbreak mounted a ma chine gun behind the burning gate and prevented mutineers from entering The imperial city and proceeding toward the forbidden city.
 Reasons for the mutiny are stili cause for speculation. Tt is believed the soldiers were melted by the prospect of being dis banded. being required to cut their queues and because of loss of faith in Yuan shi kai and there was also a certain sectional feeling against the southerners. The strange form the rebellion took shows fatal ignorance and lack of discipline. Many of the lower classes do not know the meaning of the republican flag which is floating everywhere, instead of the dragon
 The city has been surprisingly quiet throughout the last 24 hours. At the for eign legations it is thought order can be restored unless the southern Chinese join in the, nutiny. .sisr z
 Reports received from foreigners in the interior say bands of soldiers are loot ing in all directions at o'clock.