RISING IN CHINA

Otago Witness, Issue 3099, 6 August 1913, Page 26

RISING IN CHINA

HONGKONG, July 28. The British Consul has despatched steamers to Canton in readiness to embark the women and children. There has been an enormous exodus from Canton. July 28. The rebels are shelling the European Settlement at Shanghai. A cordon of sailors with 60 guns is guarding the boundaries. July 30. Nanking has abandoned its support of the rebel movement. Four thousand northern troopers have arrived on the Yangtse-kiang, and are preparing to march upon Wusung. The influx of refugees is causing anxiety in Shanghai, where food supplies are interrupted and famine is feared. The foreign consuls, have protested against the northern admirals firing shells over Shanghai, August 1. The loyalists have captured Shin-hing, and are advancing on Canton. August 4. The northern generals have initiated a sweeping movement. A detachment of Indian troops has been sent to Canton to guard the Shamien (the British commercial settlement). French sailors are patrolling the French concession, and a large force of Chinese troops is also protecting the foreign settlements. The revolutionary rising is now practically a fiasco. The leaders, with a price on their heads, have disappeared. It is believed that they have gone to Kwan-tung, whence Dr Sun Yat Sen asserts the movement will be reorganised. LONDON, August 1. Reuter’s Peking correspondent advises that the northerners are steadily subdividing the rebels, and that waverers are hastening to assure the Government of their support. The President’s friends are elated with his easy successes, and advocate an autocratic regime, hoping that eventually a Yuan dynasty will be established, with rewards for personal adherents.