CHINESE REPUBLIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 64, 21 July 1913, Page 5

CHINESE REPUBLIC.

Bl'ii GRISSS DEVELOPING.

QUESTION OF CONTROL

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

Pekin, July 20. The crisis is developing and threatens to be of first-class magnitude. The Cabinet lias resigned. 'Plie trouble springs from rivalry between the North and South, and Vuan-Siiih-Kai's efforts to overrule the provincial authorities. Th< Southerners demand the President's resignation immediately. The cause of the revolt is Yuan-Shih-Kai's dismissing the Tutuh oJ Kiangei, a young general who was flouting the President's authority. The necessity of keeping large forces in .Mongolia, where the situa tion is serious, is increasing Yimn-Shih-Kai's difficulties.

3un-Yat-Sen is openly favoring tli

Southerners

Hsen-Chan-Muan, who is a man o: great force of character and ruthles disposition, has been proclaimed th( revolutionary President. His troop captured the British section of tin Tientsin railway.

The Southerners killed upwards of twenty officers loyal to the Central Government.

Yuan-Shih-Kai lias npointed Fen Kuo-Chang, who raptured Hainan: during the .Revolution, to suprem< command on the Yang-tse-Kiang.

It is reported that upwards of forty Japanesa officers are assisting the rel>els.

The Woosung forts have joined tin rebels.

Hong Kong, July 20. Britain has sent a destroyer t Canton. NORTH OR SOUTH? [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [Sydney Sun Special Cable.] (Received 7.10 p.m.') London, July 20. The Times says: Tho revolt ii China should decide whether sir should bo subjected to a strong centralised control or whether the pro vinces should bo a law unto themselves, and whether Pekin or tin Cantonese shall direct the destinies pi the republic.