Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-26
Northern China and Manchuria
Score Point on the SOuthernerS.

London. July Northern China
and Manchuria now have sent every
: available soldier southwark, says a
! dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from
its Pekin correspondent.
From daybreak,' the correspondent
| continues, "Pekin has resounded with
! bugles as the garrison regiments
marched out to entrain for PukoW.
counted 25 battalions of infantry, SIN
batteries of modern quick hrers, 1out
mountain batteries, two regiments OF
cavalry and other details. making 80
600 comhatants.
THE transport and supply columns
departed three days ago. l therefore
estimate that this army will be fully
concentrated with other corps at Su
Chow Flu before the end of the month.
Great progress was evident IN the
equipment, differing of the troops and
in the staff arrangements ana the
Marking Confederates will encounter
n modern army corps whose advance
it will be difficult to arrest.
yesterday, two transports. carrying
/, 1000 Northern troops, conveyed by three
cruisers left Taku. 1t is believed they
will assault the Wu-Sung forts and at
tempt their prompt recapture.
, at is now evident that every available
force, including the press and money,
j is being employed to crush the SOUTH
! erners Foreign experts are OF the opih-
, ion that the Southerners wasted the past
fortnight in throwing away priceless OPP
portunities Had theiy seized the arsenal
promptly. they say, the power of the
navy would have been neutralized and
the result would already have been set
tied. but poor Southern generalship has
been fritting away time.
i "In Peking, the campaign against the
Hue Ming Tang party is the fiercest.
| MANY parliamentarians have been arrest
ed and subsequently released, but the
procurator general announces that unless
Gen. Huang So Sing, commander of the
Southern army, and Dr. Sun Vat Sem one
of the chief revolutionaries, are expelled
from it's membership. the party will be
treated as a revolutionary society charg-
ed with fomentng the recent anti-Amerl-
can demonstrations in Mexico City.
Seventeen hundred Mexican signed
telegram addresses to President Wilson
in which they denounced the anti-Ameri-
can demonstrations in Mexico and charg-
ed they were organized by Huerta. The
message with it's numerous signatures
was mailed to President Wilson, today.
| Fighting between the rebels and the
! government forces. which was resum-
ed, at 3 O'Clock. last night, after I'M
successful negotiations for an arms
| tice ceased at daylight. today, when
| the southerners withdrew. Their at
| tack again was unsuccessful. An
! American cruiser is expected here in a
day or two.
The casualties of the Southerners
+ around Shanghai are 12e0. The losses
of the northerns are much less.
Canton. China, July 25.-Seven of
| the Southern Chinese provinces. with
q population of 150, 900, 900, have come
to an agreement for joint action
against Provisional President Yuan
Shi Kai and the Pekin government,
and beyond these the troops under
General Lung in the prov ince of
Kwang-Si sympathize with the move
ment. A force of 10000 irregular
troops, chiefly composed of Hakka
hillmen, left here, today, by way OF
I the North river to fight the Northern
. army. They will make forced
marches over the mountain passes or
). the province of kiang-Si Other
armies are being organized among the
peasants and hiIlmen.
There are 100 mountain guns in the
arsenal here and machine guns are be-
ing manufactured.
One of the principal officials here as
serts that there are millions OF doilars
in the treasury and that the revolution,
aries will be able to carry on the cam
paign for long time. He declared thai
the japanese were lending money to sus
tain the movement against Pekin ano
were assisting in other ways. The OH
cial said the Southerners had antieipat
| ed Provisional President Yuan Shi Ia
f in securing Japanese support by promis
= ing the Manchu soldiers that they would
be given freedom to return to Manchuria
a. The governor general in letter pub
= lished, today. asserts that, he desires tn
establishment of a genuine republic II
China and not dictatorship.
II Washington July 25.-Reports to tn
: state department from the America
legation at Pekin declare that in tn
fighting near Shanghai, the navy, be
: ing reularly supplied with funds, re
:, remains loyal to Yuan Shi Kali. Will
: the Chinese merchants at Canton ais
! are opposing the rebellion from bus
considerations.
: On the whole the government troop
are successfully withstanding the at
tack of the rebels at the Shanghai
arsenal. while the Southern troops o.
the Puknw line are reported to be re
treating. At Hankow a majority of tn