The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-29
CHINESE REBELS
FIRE ON SHANGHAI
1t Is Suspected They Are Deliberately
Turning Guns on Foreign
Legations.

Shanghai, July 29.--After two nights
OF quiet, firing was resumed here at
O'Clock last night Shells burst over the
bandstand in the foreign settlement and
a Portuguese boy received mortal in
iuries and other foreigners had narrow
escapes.
1t is suspected that the rebels are
deliberately training their guns on the
| foreign settlement in revenge for the
Shanghai volunteers having disarmed 300
soldiers and IL officers at Chapel Satur-
day.
Panic prevails among the Chinese,
crowds of whom are fiocking into the
foreign settlement from the native city.
All the boundaries of the settlement are
constantly patrolled by foreign detach-
ments.
Two thousand rebels started fierce
attack on the arsenal The govern
ment warship shelled the rebel position,
but many of the shells fell in the for
eign settlement. The firing on both sides
continued intermittently for three hours.
The northerners are holding their ground
Wu Sung has not yet been bombarded
although the foreign consuls were warned
that the warships would open against
the forts.
The Japanese admiral, who is the
ranking officer of the foreign fleet, re-
fuses to allow any bluejackets to enter
Chapel to aid the volunteers on the
troops into Chinese territory
London, July 29.-The opinion is con-
fdently expressed. says The Times Pc
kin correspondent, that the revolution
aries are already hopelessly beaten From
all the provinces which were supposed
to have joined in the movement against
President Yuan Shi Kai protests have
come declaring loyalty on the part of
certain high officials and their cities. No
southern reinforcements are yet known
to have left Canton.
A small rising is reported on the Han
river. The province Of Hu-Peh is said
to favor the south, but Wa Chang re
mains firm and it would seem that only
some totally unexpected development can
prevent the early and complete success
Of the government troops.
American Boat Shelled.
Pekin, July. 20. Roger S. Greene, the
American consul general at Hankow, in
a telegram to the legation here, says
that a Standard Oil Co. boat and Brit
ish boat have been fired upon near Yo
Chow, on the Yang Use river in the prov
ince Of Human. This would indicate that
the troops in that province are rebel
lious. 1t is notable that although the
maritime province of Che Kiang is sur
rounded by rebellious provinces, it still
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Rear Admiral Reginald +. Nicholson, |
of the United States Asiatic
feet, who is proceeding up the Yang Use
river on the cruiser Saratoga, telegraphs |
the legation here that the situation at |
ku Ling has been relieved by the de.
oarture OF the rebels.
Amos r. Wilder, American consul gen
sral at Shanghai, has advised the lega
ion that American volunteers are par
ticipating with other foreigners in guard /
ng the foreign settlements there.
The diplomatic body in Pekin met yes
terday and agreed to fulfil the request |
If the Chinese government that Chinese |
Dc no longer permitted to reside within
the legation quarter was established. /
The government fears that plotters or
,ssassins might lodge in the hotel.
A number of members of Parliament |
Belonging to the Two Ming Tang party,
;he radical revolutionary party In China,
rave departed from Pekin. Those re-
naming win absent themselves from the
Senate, where they have majority, and
prevent the eonfrmat tion of Hsiung Hsi
ling as premier Hsiung Hsi Ling, who
5 a former minister of finance, is the
lominee of President Yuan Shi kai for
he premiership.
The diplomatic corps has refused the
Fhinese governments request for per
mission to search foreign ships and for
ign residences and to court martial for
igners caught within the Chinese mill.
AIRY lines.
There is much filihustering going on
nd there are persistent reports that
Japanese officers are aiding the rebels
ice President Ii Yuen Heng, in an in
erview, is quoted as having said that
japanese concessionaires paid S5000,000
or mining and other rights in the prov
nee OF Human and that with this money
he rebels financed the present upris-
ng.