MUTINEERS UNPUNISHED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1380, 5 March 1912, Page 5

MUTINEERS UNPUNISHED.

REPUBLICAN AID FROM NANKING. RIOTING AT TIENTSIN. (Rec. March 4, 9.45 p.m.) Peking, March 4. The old-style troops under the aged General Chiang-Weiti havo restored order. Tho guilty soldiers, most of whom belong to tho Third Division, escaped scot free except two ,\vho were not wearing uniforms and were executed. Tho . authorities feared the effect on their comrades if they punished the men. A hundred alleged looters were executed, included among them were many poverty-stricken men and some women who had gathered scraps amongst tho ruins. , Eight hundred foreign troops patrolled the outskirts of tho Legation quarters, and three thousand aro now in Peking. The fires in tho city caused twenty deaths. A detachment of tho mutineers' artillery, headed by a band marched on Saturday to the Palace of 'the DowagerEmpress's father and blew up' the gate and burned a portion of tho building. It is a significant fact that no Mancliu houses and shops were looted.

Prince Ching is seriously ill in the French Hospital.

The Legations consider that a judicious support of the President, Yuan-Shih-Kai, is tho surest means of overcoming anarchy. General Li Yuan-heng desires to assist in restoring Yuan-Shih-Kai's authority. Dr. Sun Yat Sen declares that the Nanking Government is ready temporarily to assume responsibility in tho north. Effective measures have been taken to resist Yunn-Shih-Kai. Nanking delegates suggest tho combination of Northern and Southern troops in the establishment ot a huge police force, with its headquarters at Peking, inasmuch as the southorn districts aro quiet. Five thousand Japanese troops at Port Arthur have been ordered to proceed to Tientsin, where there are only 1500 -foreign troops. The rabble joined tho mutineers on Saturday night, looting shops and banics In Tientsin and burning property. The soldiers fired continuously, and tho rettlo of musketry terrified v the city. Tho few police remaining loyal were outnumbered, and were powerless. Fourteen simultaneous fires were burning. The pillagers entered the Peiynnd mint, destroyed valuable machinery, and emptied the silver stores. Dr. Schreyer, a German, while assisting his friends to escapo from Tientsin, was killed by a policeman, who was himself 6hot. It transpired that French engineers morely disconnected a portion of the bridge which was previously reported to have been blown up. Communication has been restored, enabling two thousand of Yuan-Shih-Kai's troops to proceed to Taoting-fu to suppress the mutiny thcie. Rebellious troops have occupied and sacked Tungchau.