PEKING LOOTING.
MUCH BLOODSHED. OLD-STYLE TROOPS SUPPRESS DISORDERS. GUILTY ESCAPE SCOT FREE, Bj Teleiraßli-Pi'eJs Ascoefation-GoDyrlehl Peking, March 3. The Nanking delegates have telegraphed to General Li Yuan-heug to bring tho liepublican army to Peking, as the Government is unable to copo with the situation. The Northern Chinese army participated in the looting, believing that the arrival hero of the Nanking delegates was a prelude to their dismissal. The loyal troops killed many panicstricken inhabitants who were fleeing with their effects, mistaking them for looters. Prisoners were summarily decapitated in tho outskirts of the city. There are many headless bodies in tho streetß, Civilians are arming themselves and. barricading their' premises. Gates are also being erected in tho streets. A British railway guard is protecting tho women and children. Tho populace has been notified that anyone found in the streets after eight o'clock at night will be shot. Mobs looted Fengtai and Yupingfu. At Tientsin rioters looted and burned houses and shops in many streets. Hundreds of tho rioters were arrested. A train load of rioters quitted Paotingfu for Peking, but the authorities blew up a bridge, stopping traffic.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1380, 5 March 1912, Page 5
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188PEKING LOOTING. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1380, 5 March 1912, Page 5
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