THE LOOT OF TIENTSIN.
POPULACE TERRIFIED. JAPANESE TROOPS ORDERED TO THE SCENE. PEKIN, March 4Five thousand Japanese troops at Port Arthur have been ordered to proceed to Tientsin, where 1500 foreign troops and rabble joined the mutineers on Saturday night, looting the shops and the Bank of Tientsin, and burning property. The soldiers fired continuously, the battle of musketry terrifying the city. The few police remaining loyal were outnumbered and powerlessFourteen fires were burning neouslyThe pillagers entered the Pervand mint and destroyed valuable machinery and emptied the silver stores. Dr. Schreyer. a German, who was assisting his friends to escape from Tientsing, was killed by a policeman, who was himself shot.
It transpires that French_ engineers merely disconnected a portion of the bridge previously reported t-o be blown up. • Communication has been restored, thus enabling 2000 of Marquis Juan Shill Kai’s troops to proceed. t-o Poa Ting Fu to suppress the. mutiny. Rebellions troops occupied and sacked Tungchau.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3466, 5 March 1912, Page 5
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158THE LOOT OF TIENTSIN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3466, 5 March 1912, Page 5
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