The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-16
CHINESE REBELS REPORTED ID BE
 TRAINED ARMY
Government Has More to Compete With Than Un-
 organized Mob
CHENG TU BELIEVED
 TO BE WEAKENING
Missions May Be Looted But Is Be- lieved Missionaries Will Be Un- harmed-Trouble Caused
 By Reactionaries

By Reactionaries
 Picking. September 15.-Sui Flu is the highest point at which the Yang rse Kiang river is navigable. Troops From Hu Peh and shen Si have been ordered to Szechuen. The foreign office states that Cheng To's besegers will not per init any one to enter or leave the city
 It is feared that General Chao Erh Feng may not be able to comply with the demands of the besegers He cannot re- store to them the ring leaders of ths hallway league as these men have been decaI itated.
 It is not doubted the missions will he footed if the city falls, but it is expected the missionaries may be spared. the retels fearing the penalties of violence toward the foreigners and having bcfcre had a severe lesson.
 The 20o0 royal troops under General Chao Erh Feng are veterans of his re- cent entry into Thibet They returned with him. but the medernized army. which is lS000 strong in Szechucn, is made lip of residents of that province and ac- cord!ngly may prove rebellous.
 'The American and British missionaries at Ssechuen numoer about 800. The Cath olics chiefly French traders. total 250. Altogether about 30 missionaries have reached Chung King.
 Rebellion in Szechuen province has reached an alarming stage according b admissions on an imperial edict issued to- day. Chinese officials known for their 41,< district to put down the uprising.
 Trouble has grown out of the govern ments disposition to permit foreign par ticipation in railway financing in China. Americans Arrive Safe Chung King. China, September 15.-A number of American families from the rebelious districts and elsewhere have ar rived here safely.
 l Two thousand modern troops outside Cheng ru, in Szechuen, have not yet joined the besiegers, butshave moved their barracks. which are outside the walls.
 into a camp five miles distant. They refuse to obey the viceroy or to par ticipate in the siege. l Chicago, September 15-William J. Cal houn United States minister to China. in an interview here today discussed the crisis in China and reasons for demon strations against the government in Sze- chuen province.
 Important changes and reforms said Mir Calhoun, have been planned and are being worked out by the Chinese government, which when completed, will awaken the dormant forces and resources of the great empire.
 The trouble in Szeehuen is caused by reactionares, who are seeking to check the plans of the government for develop ing and progress and who desire to keep the country at a standstill."
 Washington, September 15.-State de- partment cable advices from Charge De Affaires Williams at Picking today stated that the government troops were confronted not by an unorganized mob of civilians. but by trained soldiers who held the approaches to the city of Cheng Tu. who, Mir. Williams believes. have possession of the arsenal and mag azines at the citys south gate
 Fighting at Kia Ting
 At Kia Ting the cablegram reported fighting MT. Williams reported that while the situation was critical no lives of for eigners were known to have been lost He said the disaffected soldiers were part of the force of 5000 who garrisoned the province of Szechuen, being directly re- sponsible to the provincial authorities, whose loyalty is questioned. and who. gen. eraly speaking, were natives of the / province.
 The loyal garrison of Cheng Tu com prizes 2000 troops, who are not natives of the province.
 Kia Ting is 200 miles away from Cheng ru and directly on the route from that city to Sui Flu, where the British missionaries from Cheng Tu found refuge and are awaiting the arrival of foreign gunboats. From this port the Flu Kiang, or Min river. trib- utary to the Yang Tse Kiang, extends northward to Cheng Tu. and it is be- lieved it will be down this small branch the missionaries will be found In light draft boats.
 Mir Williams in reporting the arrest of the president of the provincial as sembly of Szechuen and likewise the vice president said the latter was found with revolutionary documents in his possession. While all of the so or more Americans and the British in Szechuen province have been asked to leave for places of safety the viceroy detained those in Cheng Tu because of danger outside the city.