CHINESE CRISIS
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MUTINY OF SOLDIERS NON-PAYMENT OF WAGES. BURNING AND LOOTING RAMPANT. (Received Last Night, 9.10 o'clock.) PEKIN, March 1. ,Owing to the non-payment of wages, 5000 soldiers, of the Third Division, burnt their quarters near General Yuan Shih Kai's headquarters. Armed with .rifles and bayonets, they scattered throughout the city, looting shops, particularly goldsmiths' and pawnbrokers', and constantly firing their rifles "to intimidate the populace, and bayonetting resisting shopkeepers. The foreign troops rescued foreigners and took them to the Legation quarters. At mid-day seven great fires were burning. The .shooting dwindled owing to the expenditure of ammunition, and the exhaustion of., the looters, parties' of whom left the city oh ponies, laden with loot. j» ■.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10573, 2 March 1912, Page 5
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124CHINESE CRISIS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10573, 2 March 1912, Page 5
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