The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-04
SOLDIERS MUTINY. AND SET FIRE TO
 HOUSES IN TEEN TSIN
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IA1n ID >~~~~~~~~~0e~~~~ooO~ and surest means of overcoming the gen eral spirit of anarchy. Gen. Ii Huen Heng. the newly elected vice president of the republic, Is anxious to assist in restoring Yuan shi Kais authority In his opinion the mutlny should not be permitted to upset the general scheme of reconstruction.
 pr. Sun Vat Sen, the acting president, is ready temporarily to assume the whole responsibility of administration. The dele gates suggest a combination of the best northern and southern troops and the es- tablishment of great police force with headquarters at Picking. For the present the south Is orderly and the soldiers are practically confined to barracks. Tonight the gendarmie are policing Picking. An occasional shot is heard but the fires have | been extlnguished.
 | As the railway between Picking and Tier | Tsin is again open the POO American troops of the Fifteenth infantry, under Maj | James NJ. Arrowsmith, arrived here to- day. The Americans left Tien Tsin last night and came through without incident, | although they had placed q maxim gun on flat car in front of the engine in case | 1t might be needed. The fact that a com pany of Somerset infantry at Fling Tai deployed for the purpose of driving back the mutinous regiment from the railway is accepted here as evidence that the for eign powers will intervene so far as 1t is necessary to keep up communication along the railway from Picking to the sea. The Roman Catholic mission which was in the heart of the town, might have caught fire from the Chinese buildings which were burned in that section, but the American compounds are both be- yond the city walls and are surrounded
 by their own walls. Therefore, they are not considered to have been endan- gered Many women and children, if the belief that peace had been re-estab- lished by the abdication of the throne, had returned to the missions. The Pao Ting Flu district was severely punished after the Boxer uprising in 1900, and 1t is not likely to have forgotten the les son. The general opinion is that the mutIneers would hesitate long before harmlng foreigners resident there.
 Headless Bodies Seen
 This afternoon attachments of from 50 to 150 each of the legation guards marched around the city as a show of force. They took the broad main roads on which there are many picturesque arches. Curious throngs watched the foreign forces that attracted more atten- tion than the headless bodies, which were come upon occasionally, still unburied, as a warning to the looters The Americans headed the parade, the Russians bring ing up the rear, the order of prece- dence being arranged alphabetically.
 Yuan Shi Kai has placed the control of the city under the Chang Kueitis, pie turesque turbaned old style troops, upon whom the president-elect Is depending to preserve order.
 Prince Ching, ex-premier, and president of the priyy council is reported to be fin serious condition at the French hos pltal.
 Boston, March s.-Assurances of the safety of the foreign missionaries sta- toned at Pekng came today in cable gram to the Headquarters of the Amer ican board of commissioners of foreign missions The cablegram. read
 "All Picking missionaries and mission buildings safe"