INSURRECTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 62, 18 July 1913, Page 5

INSURRECTION.

IN CHINESE PROVINCES.

WHAT ARE THE JAPS DOING?

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

(Received 8.20 a.m.) Peking, July 17

It is reported that Kiang-si, Kaingsu, Kwang-si, Fukien, Canton, Szechuan, Hunan and Anhui provinces are preparing to declare their independence. Some have done so cautiously. Many of 'he northern .roops have gone to Kiangsi, where indecisive fighting is proceeding. The attitude of the Japanese is bitterly commented on. The presence of Japanese .officers beside the rebels supports the belief that they are stirring up strife. Moreover, Li Huan Hung has protested against the anchoring of the Japanese gunboats in the fighting zones. Advices through Herman channels state that the rebel leader, wearing a Japanese uniform, went up the river in a Japanese gunboat. The Japanese Legation deny that any official assistance has been given to the rebels. The southern army dynamited the Pukew railway bridges for 150 miles north of Yangtsze, and tore up rails, preventing the transport of the northern troops. The insurgents surrounded the German Consulate at Nanking on the ground that the Germans had extradited the revolutionaries from German Hankow as a concession. Shanghai, July 17.

Reports of the revolution are general along the lower Yangtsze province. ,», Kiang-su province has joined the rebels. General Huan chi Sing has declared war at Nanking against Yuan Huanghsing, and been appointed commander-in-chief with Then Chum Hiuan, ExViceroy, as generalissimo. All ' the troops at Nanking and Chinkiang have joined the rebels. The commanders of some of the forts were shot for refusing to join.