Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-26
DAMPENS
ARDOR OF PROVINCE
Fo KEN Sympathizers With
Chinese Rebels Waiting for
Some Military Success.
ClAMOR IN THE SOUTH
BY H0THEADED YOUTHS
Poor Generalship Of Southerners Re-
sponsihe FOR Failing Movement,
Says Foreign Experts.

FLU CHOW, China. July 26-The defeat
Of the southern revolutionary troops at
Shanghai seems to have dampened the
ardor Of the people OF the province Of
Fo Klein. who sympathise strongly with
the rebel movement. but now seem in
clined to, remain passive unless the
southerners achieve an important mill
tary success. War 10 generally depre-
Gated. but there Is . small minority Of
the more youthful and hotheaded ele-
ment which clamors for redress OF its
grievances.
When some Of the military were with
drawn from this city Sunday q detach-
ment of Japanese marines was ordered
ashore. In the foreign colonies here the
general opinion prevailed that the land
ing Of these marines was unnecessary.
strict censorship has been imposed on
outgoing kilograms, a. well as upon the
newspapers.
The fve-colored republican flag con-
tinues to float over the municipal gov
eminent offices, but the flagstaffs over
the forts are bare.
Many of the Christian missionaries have
been recalled from the interior districts
owing to the possibility Of outbreaks
Every Available Man Sent South.
LONDON. July 28.-"Northern China
and Manchuria now have sent every
available soldier southwark" says dis
patch to the Daily Telegraph from its
Picking correspondent
From daybreak,'' the correspondent
continues Picking has resounded with
bugles as the garrison regiments marched
out to entrain from Pukow. l counted
twenty-five battalions Of infantry, six
batteries Of modern quick firers. four
mountain batteries, two regiments OF
cavalry and other details. making 10000
combatants.
THE transport and supply columns de-
mate that this army wiz be fully concen-
trated with the other corps at Su-Chow-
Flu before the end of the month.
"Yesterda. two transports carrying
1000 northern troops convoyed by three
will assault the Wusung forts and at
tempt their prompt recapture.
1T Is now evident that every available
force, including the press and money, Is
being employed to crush the southerners.
Foreign experts are OF the opinion that
the southerners wasted the past fortnight
in throwing away priceless opportunities
Had they seized the arsenal promptly,
b sasy sn the o. ns sSs result
would already have been settled. but poor
southern generaiship has been frittering
away time and men.
I'm Picking the campaign against the
Kwo Ming Tang party IL the nercest
Many parliamentarians have been ar
rested and subsequently released. but
the procurator general announces that
unless Gen. Huang- Sing, commander of
Sen, one OF the chief revolutionaries.
are expelled from tts membership the
party will be treated a. q revolutionary
society.
Japan's watchful solicitude.
1T is persistently rumored here that
Japan is partly mobilizing the 9Th
Kummamoto and another division. No
confirmation Is obtainable Japan's at
titude Is quite correct. being simply
that OF a watchful solicitude for the
great interests that are being endan-
gered."
A dispatch to the Morning Post from
Shanghai says 1t is now admitted that
the arsenal there 10 becoming hard
pressed by the southerners.
1.-THE garrison" the correspondent adds,
has been harassed by sniping through
out the day and becoming exhausted as
result Of three successive night at
7, Ks It appears tina, o.; only the support
1.-The casualties Of the southerners to
date are LOO men killed or wounded"
Foreigners Appeal for Guard.
HANKOw. China. July 2e.-Ursent ap-
peals were received today from the for
eigners resident in Ku Ling for q naval
guard. There are over 1900 Of them
there mostly women and children. The
authorities have not yet taken any &C.
ton.
The northern forces. according to q dis
patch from Kiu Kiang. started a general
advance yesterday and the rebels retreat
ed before them in confusion: A column
Of northern soldiers crossed the Yank-
tse Kiang and captured Olphant Island.
from which position they began Smelling
the Pu Kow forts.
Peace Talk at Shanghai.
SHANGHAI. China, July 9a-Peace
propositions are under discussion here be-
tween the two parties. Dr.. WI Ting
fang, formerly Chinese minister to the
United States. IL the most prominent
among the intermediates. but 1t IL
doubted here whether he II authorized by
Provisional President Yuan Shi Kai.
The principal. WI Sungfort. today def
nitely declared for the government. The
country people and the workmen 1T the
arsenal are regaining confidence and re-
turning to their work.
Declare Revoluti1u Short Lived.
BOSTON. July 26-The belief that the
present revolutionary movement ip China
IL destined to be short lived was ex-
pressed In cablegram received today by
the American Baptist Foreign Mission
Society here from lite represents tive At
Shanghai. The cablegram follows:
Revolution not likely to continue long.