THE CHINESE REVOLT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 57, 2 March 1912, Page 5

THE CHINESE REVOLT.

TROOPS GET OUT OF HAND AND , RUN AMOK. FOREIGNERS RESCUED. - Pekin, March 1. Owing to the non-payment of wages five thousand soldiers ,of the third dlviision burnt, their, quarters near Yuan-Shih-Kai's headquarters, and, armed with rifles and bayonets, serais tered about the town, looting the shops, particularly the goldsmiths' and pawnbrokers' and constantly firing their rifles to intimidate the populace, and bayonetting the resisting shopkeepers. A pawnshop near the Times' correspondent's residence was fired, and the conflagration assumed large proportions. ;A strange spectacle was presented, gangs of mutineers dancing around the conflagration and shooting madly into the flames, then rushing into the shops' and staggering off laden with loot, wrapped in blankets and cmrtains. Meanwhile the foreign troops rescued foreigners and took them to the legation quarters. At raid-day seven great fires were burning, but the shooting dwindled owing to the exhaustion of ammunition. Parties of looters are leaving the oity, their ponies laden with loot.