CHINESE MUTINEERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 58, 7 March 1912, Page 5

CHINESE MUTINEERS.

FOREIGN STORES LOOTED.

CHINESE OFFICIALS KILLED.

PEKING, March 6. The Republican delegates assert thai trio Republic was inaugurated at Nanking, but the Cabinet was formed at Peking. President Yuan-shih-kai will proceed to Nanking in September. The British and American tobacco stores at Pao-ting-fu, containing goods Valued at £IO.OOO. and all the Japanese premises, were looted. The Japanese took refuge in mission premises. French and Japanese troops have been dispatched to Pao-ting-fu to bring their subjects to Peking. The Japanese are protecting all foreigners at Shan-hai-Icwan. Sevpral parties of mutineers who returned to Peking were arrested and executed. Two thousand troops revolted and looted Kiukang. The Republican troops are triumphing at Wei-hai-wei. and are driving the recalcitrant forces south-west. Thev killed 1000. Advices from Kuldja, Mongolia, state that the Maochu troops mutinied, murdering the officials. MISSIONARY SHOT DEAD. (Received 0.50 a.m.) PEKING, March 6. .Bishop Scott and the Revs. F. Day and F. Hughes, on a missionary tour, reached Cbingho. The mutineers and soldiers sacking the town commandeered their carts and mules and shot Mr. Day dead.