MUTINY IN PEKING.
RIOTERS MAD WITH EXCITEMENT. WANTON~DAMAGE. PEKING, March 1. Owing to the non-payment of wages due, five thousand soldiers, belonging to the Third Division, burnt their quarters near Yuan-shih-kai's headquarters.
Armed with rifles and bayonets they scattered, looting shops, particularly the goldsmiths' and pawnbrokers', constantly firing their rifles to intimidate the populace, and bayonetting resisting shopkeepers. A pawnshop, near "The Times" correspondent's residence, was set on fire, and it assumed largo proportions. It was a strango spectacle to see gangs of mutineers dancing around tho conflagration, shooting madly into tho flames, and then rushing into shops and stagering off laden with loot wrapped in blankets and curtains. Meanwhile foreign troops rescued tho foreigners, and took them to tho Legation quarters. At midday seven great fires were burning, but the shooting was dwindling, owing to tho expenditure of ammunition, and the exhaustion of the looters, parties of whom are leaving the city on ponies laden with loot.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14293, 2 March 1912, Page 9
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