Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-02
FOREIGN SOLDIERS
CALLED TO PEK|NG
Ministers of the Other Nations
Decide on Course at a
Conference.
MISSIONARIES KILLED
By THE MUTINEERS
Soldiers at Paotingfu Loot Large
Number Of Stores.
PORTION OF PALACE BURNED
Artillery Shell Down Gate of Home
of Duke Kuei Hsiang.
Headless Bodies in
Streets
Soldiers at Paotingfu Loot Large
Number of Stores.
PORTION OF PALACE BURNED

PEkING. March 2.-The foreign minis
ters here. after a conference, have de-
cided to bring in to Peking all the avail
able foreign troops stationed i'm adjacent
ports in China. a force of 1000 troops
of various nationalities will arrive here
tomorrow.
The action of the ministers i'm calling
In foreign troops to PekinS was decided
on at a meeting convened partly as re-
suit of communication from Tang-Shao-
vi asking the powers to take measures
to prevent further bloodshed and loss Of
property in Peking. Tang-Shao- Yi's COM
munication is regarded as unofficial but
the foreign ministers were satisfied that
action was necessary.
The foreign troops will be mounted and
will patrol the city during the daytime
A Japanese batt'eship has been ordered
Ho, in the province of Chilli. about thir-
ty miles to the southeast of Tientsin.
30 as to establish wireless communica-
tion with the Italian station in Peking
Bridges Blown Up.
\ rainioad OF mutinous soldiers. be-
longing to the garrison at Tao-Fu, start
ed for Peking today. but the railroad au-
thorities blew up the BRIGGS and stopped
the traffic.
chang-Huai-Chih's soldiers have killed
many innocent persons passing along the
streets of Peking CARRYING parcels They
were mo:t tly panic-stricken people fleeing
from ths-eity with-their own effects.
serious recrudescence of disorder &C.
CURED this morning. when, at o'clock,
detachment of artillery. beaded by band.
marched TO the palace of Duke Kuei-
Hs.ans. father of the empress dowager.
and shelled down The gate. They looted
large amount of property and burned
portion of the palace.
Although last night parties of soldiers
belonging to the army commanded by
Chang -Huai-Chih were engaged in loot
ing. today they are fighting the looters
in the outskirts of the city.
Any prisoners taken by item arc sum-
mariiy decapitated, and many headless
bodies are lying IN the streets in various
parts of the city.
Fenttai Looted.
Another gang of mutineers today visit
ed and looted Fenttai. twenty two miles
from Peking. on the railroad to Tientsin.
The British troops who are guarding the
railroad there protected the women and
children. but the mutineers looted and
hl1r ned ha raj ilxVo Sfa hafd
train. robbins many OF the passengers
Younspingfu. where the American
troops are guarding the railroad TO Ching
wangtao. also was looted today.
1t is evident that all the soldiers OF the
northern Chinese army are in agreement
- &c pillaging movement. They are
uRjzer 1.-THE belief that the coming of the
Fspuh1tcan delegates from Nanking to
Yuan Shi Kai means the dismissal of the
northern troops from the service.
The delegates have telegraphed today
to Gen. Ii Yucn Hens. commander of the
repubEcan troops at Marking and vice
president of TIE republic, TO bring n re-
publican army to Peking to restore order.
The government is quite unable at pres
ent TO cope with the situation, and the
foreign ministers here are discussing con-
certed action.
1t now has been established that the
mutincers Thursday night stacked their
loot inside the compound Of the foreign
board, which they entered by the main
gate.
Juan Shan Kai today promised to par
don all returning mutineers, but has not
yet received any response.
To Sheet All in Streets After 8 p. M.
The popuiace has been notified that all
persons found in the streets tonight after
o'clock will be shot.
The soldiers of the imperial guard and
those belonging to Chang Huai Shih S
army are now nominally in control of
Peking. II remains to be seen whether
they are much better than the mutineers.
The mutineers who left Peking for
Paotingfu yesterday and whom Yuan
Shi Kai ordered to be arrested or killed
by the garrison of that city have been
Joined by many of the soldiers there.
They have looted a great part of Pao-
tingfu and burned large areas OF the
city.
During the small hours, particularly In
the distant part Of the west city. con-
siderable trouble occurred. Whole
streets of shops were looted and many
houses were set on fire.
The civilian population is arming and
barricading private premises. while bar
Hcades are also being erected in the
streets for purposes Of defense.
Annoy. China, March 2.-Reports re-
ceived here from Swatow show that the
situation there Is becoming more serious
every day. Gen. Lang. with 500 troops
from Waichow, has arrived in the cit.
to suppress the disorders and another
body Of 900 troops is on the way there
The interior OF the province 10 IN condi-
tion Of complete anarchy.
1utiny at Paotingfu.
LONDON, March 2.-The soldiers form
ing the garrison OF Paotingfu mutiniet
last night. according to a dispatch from
Tientsin received here today. Many Cd
villains were killed. and the soldiers
looted a large number Of stores
PEKING, March MANY missioparie
have been slaughtered by the mutineer
in Paotingfu. according to a report re
ceived hero today. 1t Is thought prob
able. however. IN well informed circle