New-York tribune., 1912-03-05
PEK|NC CONTINUES PREY
Of MILITARY LOOTERS
Yuan Brings to Capital Body
guard from His Own Province
-Manchu Police Loyal.
BRITISH OPPOSE MUTINEERS
Inniskilling Fusileers Placed in
Strategic Position to Defend
Feng- Tai - Damage at
Tien- Tsin $6,OOO,OO0.

London. March J.-Reports from Pc
king received at Tien-Tsn show that
there is some looting still going on in
the Chinese capital. According to a
| news agency dispatch received here from
Tien-Tsin last night. the Manchus. who
are acting as military police in Pekng,
had succeeded at > o'clock in the after
noon in restoring comparative order and
the city generally was quiet. Artillery
firing was, however. heard to-day to
the south Of the city.
Peking, March 5.--It is reliably re-
ported that Yuan !;nih-kai has brought
into Peking new bodyguard from his
home province Of Ho-Nan He shifts
Ms troops about Peking almost daily.
one day giving the old style troops
in barracks and leaving the police and
gendarmes in control.
The reasons for the mutiny are still
causing speculation. IL is believed that
the soldiers were melted to rebellion by
the prospect of being disbanded being
of the loss of faith in Yuan Shih-kai.
and there was also a certain sectional
feeling against the Southerners
The strange form the rebellion took
shows fatal Ignorance and lack Of disci-
pline. Many Of the lower classes do not
know the meaning of the republican
flag which IS floating everyw here instead
of the dragon
An American missionary doctor has
arrived here from the district below
PaO Ting-fu. which has been the centre
of serious disturbances for the last day
or two. The doctor had been on a hunt
ing expedition, and. learning of the
mutiny at Pao Tingfu, he persuaded the
mutinous soldiers TO bring the hunting
party as far as that town. The mutineers
had commandeered train and were
proceeding to the station below the town
for a quantity of loot which had been
brought there by cart and pack. The
soldiers seemed to appreciate the fact
that the American doctor and the others
were members of the Red Cross.
They found Pao Ting-fu I'm a state Of
desOlatioH. Everywhere buildings had
been burned and shops looted. The dis
turbances lasted three days. and the
damage is probably more extensive than
at PeKlng or Tien-Tsn. From Pao
Ting-fu the American doctor came 10
Peking by train. having left secretly 4
few foreigners and Chinese officials &C.
companied him.
Most Of the missionaries remain in Pao
Ting-fu, including the women. They
have been of great service in attending
10 the wounded So far as could be
learned none Of the missionaries or for
cigners suffered injury. Below Pao Ting
fu the railway is entirely in the hands
Of the mutineers. who compel the rail-
way men to move the trains at their
orders
The mutinous soldiers before they be-
gan the rioting proclaimed three orders:
First-That the foreigners should not
be interfered with.
Second-That there should be no kill
ing.
Third-That there should be no burn
ing.
They observed only the hrst order,
however.
Not many persons were killed. but
fires were started everywhere. When
their work of pillage was completed the
mutineers left the town and proceeded
south. sackng other towns and infect
ing other garrisons with the spirit Of re-
bellion.
The losses at Peking alone through
the disorders are estimated at 10000, 900
taels by the correspondent Of The Daily
Telegraph" in the capital who afflrns the
existence Of Manchu terrorist organ
ization. which is dispatching emissaries
in all directions to incite the troops to
revolt
Frightful accounts have reached Pc
king Of anarchy and savagery In the
provinces of Shen-Si, ShanSl and
Kan-Su.
A new pretender to tho 'throne IL
mooted in the person of Marquis Chu
Cheng-yu. a lineal descendant Of the
Ming Emperor Wan Le-ih. There is an
old prophecy extant that the Mings
would recover the throne in the year
1918. and adds the correspondent
should the pretender secure the adher-
cnce OF the army this astounding deVel-
opmert may be realized.
Tien-Tsin, March 4.-Dlsturbances oc-
CURED tonight at Ta-Ku, at the mouth or
the Pei-Ho, thirty miles southeast OF 11en-
Tsin. The women and children were re-
moved to tugs, the majority Of them being
brought 10 this city
Strong military patrols are guarding all