Pillaging Canton After Fierce Fight.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 15, 1913:
Rebels and Mutinous Troops Loot the Shops of the Dealers in Precious Metals.
FOREIGNERS FEAR ATTACK
British Troops Reinforced — Twelve Hundred Killed in the Fighting on Wednesday.
    CANTON, Aug. 14.— Twelve hundred men were killed in fighting here yesterday.
    Pillage is in progress everywhere. Half the soldiers have joined the rebels, and together they had looted the principal goldsmiths' and silversmiths' stores.
    The local Generals are powerless, owing to dissensions among themselves.
    An attack on the foreign concessions at Shameen is believed by foreign residents to be in contemplation by the disorderly elements, and the detachment of Indian native troops stationed there as a guard was reinforced to-day from Hongkong in preparation for eventualities. The foreign quarter serves as a buffer between the opposing native forces.
    A huge fire started to-day, destroying a group of barracks, and as a result of the accompanying rioting the exodus of the civilian population continued without abatement.
    Traffic on the Hankow Railway has been suspended.
    From Fa Yuen, to the North of Canton, a report was received to-day of an uprising of brigands, and from other parts of the Province of Kwang-Tung news has reached here that a state of chaos exists.
    Gen. Lung Chi-Kuang with his Northern troops has retired from the vicinity of the city.

    HANKOW, Aug. 14— It is reported here that all the rebel leaders have fled from the Province of Kiang-Si.