Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-03-05
FOREIGN TROOPS
RUSHED TO PEK|N
MANY FOREIGN MISSIONARIES
REPORTED MURDERED
BY MUTiNEERs.
ANARcHYIsNOWsUPREME
American Soldiers Ordered 60 Capital
Residents A. Mercy Of Armed
Ferces-Lcyai Guards Decap-
tate Prisoners,

Picking, March 4.-Fore!gn ministers
here after q conference have decided
TO bring into Peking all the available
foreign troops stationed in adjacent
ports In China. A force of 1.o0t
troops of vsrioue nationslities has ar
rived. The meeting was called part
~ az q result Of a communication from
Tang Shao VI. asking the powers tc
take measures to prevent further
bloodshed and loss Of propertyin Pc
king. The foreign troops are mounted
and will patrol the city during the
daytime.
A trainload Of mutinous soldiers be
longing to the garrison Of Pao Tins
Flu started for Picking, but the railroad
authorities blew UP the bridge and
stopped the traflc. Chang Heuai'
Chihs soldiers have killed many In
nocent persons passing along the
streets of Pekin, carrying parcels.
They were mostly panicstricken peo'
pie fleeing from the city with their
own effects.
Soldiers Loot Palace.
marched to the palace Of Duke kuei'
Hsiang. father of the empress dow
ager, and battered down the gate, loot
Ing and burning portion OF the
palace.
Although parties Of soldiers belong
ing to the army commanded ny Chang.
Huai-Chih were themselves engaged in
footing. they are now fighting the
hooters in the outskirts of the city,
Any prisoners taken by them are sum
marily decapitated and many headlesa
bodies are lying in the streets.
In the night, particularly in the dis
tant part Of the West City. whole
streets of shops were sacked and
many. houses were set on IRE. The
civilian population is arming and bar.
Reading private premises. while bar.
ricades also are being erected In the
streets for purposes Of defense.
The mutineers who left Peking fcy
PacTing-Fu 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 great part of Pao.
Tine-Fu and burned large areas Of the
city.
Another gang Of mutineere visited
and looted Fene Tai, twenty-five miles
from Pekins on the railroad to Tien
Tsin The British troops who are
guarding the railroad there protected
the women and children but the mutt.
peers looted and burned the railway
station and held up train. robbine
many of the Chinese passengers.
YunE-Png Flu. where the American
troops are guarding the railroad to
Ching Wang Tao. also was looted.
II is evident that all the soldiers Of
the northern Chinese army are In
agreement with the pillaging move.
ment. They are under the belief that
the coming of the republican delegates
from Marking to Yuan shi Kai means
from the service.
Many missionaries have been
slaughtered by the mutineers in Pao
Ting Flu. according to report re-.
ceived here. II is believed the victims
are Roman Catholics.
Soldiers Loot In Tien Tsln.
Tein Esip.-Rioting Of serious ma.
ture took place here. The outbreak
had been feared and precautions were
taken as far as possible to protect
residents from harm. Between and
10 o'clock the soldiers mutinied. set
FIRE to number of buildings. and then
began looting from house to house
They were Joined by the rsbble,
Shops and banks in all the impor
tant streets were looted. and some
of them were wrecked.
No fewer than il fires were raging
simultaneously in various parts of the
city. The soldiers broke into the Pie
Yang mint. which was set on fire
Machinery, to the value of many thou.
sands of dollars. was destroyed. The
looters entered the silver stores,
wrecking of the iron shutters and
even making holes in the walls The
mint was looted of everything port:
able and the ground was strewn with
empty cartridge clips and cases.
The German consul dispatched .
guard to protect German Residents In
the city, composed chiefly of the en-.
sineering staff Of the Tien Tsin.Fu.
kcw railway. A German doctor,
named Schreeter, who entered the
city to assist German friends, was
shot dead by looting soldiers. For.
cigners generally, however, were not
rlolested. A company of the Somerset
regiment was sent to the British sta.
tion at midnight to protect the railway
property.