RIVALRY BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH.
REVOLUTIONARY PRESIDENT PROCLAIMED. (United Press Association. —Copyright.) PEKIN, July 20. Thse crisis developing threatens to bo t>f first, class magnitude. The Oabihas resigned. The .trouble springs from the rivalry between north and south, and President Yuan.Shih Kai's efforts to override tho provincial authorities. The south.erners demand the President's resignation immediately. The cause of the revolt was Yuan Shih Kai's dismissing the Tutuh of Kiangsi, a young general, for flouting the President's authority. The necessity for keeping large forces in Mongolia, where the situation is serious is increasing Yuan Shih Kai's difficulties. Dr.. Sun Vat Sen is openly favouring tho southerners.' ••■ ; ,; . Hseri Chan iSuan, who is a man of great force of character but of "ruthless disposition, has been proclaimed revolutionary president. His troop.? havp. Raptured the 'British section of the, Tientsin Railway. The; southerners killed upwards of twenty officers loyal to the central Government. Yuan Shih Kai has appointed Pen . Kuo Chang, who captured Han Yang during the.revoluti_on, to the supreme command in the Y*ang Tse district. It is reported that upwards of forty Japanese officers are assisting the rebels. Woosung forts joined the rebels.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12889, 21 July 1913, Page 5
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