THE REVOLT.
ANARCHY IN CANTON.
FLIGHT OF MESSRS, CHAN
AND SHUM.
ARMY DEMAND CANCELLATION OF
INDEPENDENCE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 1913.
LATEST NEWS FROM CANTON. The following news arrived at midnight yesterday from our Canton) Corres pondent
General Lung is now at Lu Pow and in possession of the town, His schemo is
line..
evidently to make for the railway time from Ying Tek about & miles or soffrom Canton and march his troops. down the This is a much more likely and At two o'clock yesterday the Army more sensible scheme than those which have been going about, as if he arrived at demanded that the Governor-General
Canton via Samshui he would come out on should cancel the declaration of inde the other side of the river where it is
pondelier. “Mr. Chan' Kwing Ming bad.
to submit and he fled from the Yamen, rumour saying that he had departed for his native place
"pretty broad and where the country is flat. so that he would not be able to take up a commanding position without crossing the river, a rather dangerous thing to have to dos As it in he will march his troops Mr. Shum Chus-hauan, the ex-Viceroy, and recently the so-called Generalissimo of down the line as there are of course no roads of any kind and lots of erceks to be the rebel forces, who has been issuing crossed. The railway will in this respect be appeals from Canton to the Kwangai areat asset to him. At this rate he will
Generals to come under the standard of
the rebellion, baving signally failed to
achieve his object, is also reported to have quietly departed on the 2nd inst., and is
believed to have gone back to Shanghai,
Mr. Chan Kai Wa, the Superintendent of Police, has announced the cancellation of the declaration of independence, "
President Yuan Shih Kai has appointed General Lung to take over the Governor, Generalship of the province.
Late last night we were informed that
a state of anarchy prevailed in Canton, A force of 900 men of the 25th Punjabis
- under the command of Captains. Tyrrell, Steel, and Adkins, and five native officers left for Canton by the steamer Patskan to protect the Shameen, where an enor
nous quantity of valuables belonging to Chinese in the city has been stored during the past week I SU The dutachment
carried four machine guns.
take up a position somewhere at the
White Cloud Hills the best situation around the City. This scheme of advance will bring him here by Tuesday, it is thought, and then there should be an end to the speculations as to the next move and we will at least know where we are and what to expect in the way of fighting This latest news is accepted by people who know the Delta well and they think that it is the most feasible way to move troops on the City Wong Wu Shun, the old pirate chief, is with Lang, but whether he will march with his troops on Canton or whether he will remain around. Fatshan District is uncertain, Many soldiers. were moved up the Delta in the direction of the North River yesterday and even this morning launches are towing up junks filled with soldiers. The idea apparently is to try to stop Lung before he is able to take up a commanding position.
CHINESE STEAMERS RIDDLED
WITH SHOT AND SHELL.
SUSPECTED OF TRANSPORTING GENERAL LUNG's TROOPS.
EXCITING WEST RIVER EXPERIENCE
The first to experience the shooting
not bean General Lung's men, but three Chinese river steaners trading between this port and Wuchow. It was perhaps a fortunate fact that all the steamers in question fly the Chinese flag, and are com manded by Chinese officers, in quence of which the number of passengers they are allowed to carry is limited." Twelve is said to be the full number allowed each steamer, and had there been more on board two of the steamers in question the death roll must have been greater,: gers on the steamer o Krai were killed, the No. 1 pilot is reported missing, and
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shell struck the ship on the starboard HOME AND CHINA AFFAIRS. brutal insults will be wiped out in blood.
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TROM OVE OWN CORRESPONDENT]
LONDON, July oth,
After all, these Balkan nations have a side of the bridge deck, and cut two inches clean oût of an iron rail about an
whole series of barriors to pass before. they are clear of barbarism and fit to be inch thick before amashing through the
considered among the civilised peoples of woodwork of a starboard cabin. It then
THE LATE AIR, LYTTLETON.
the world. As many an experienced passed through the side of the port cabin.
Though the late Mr. Alfred Lyttleton traveller said when the war with Turkey opposite, struck and killed a Chinese may have impressed himself on Hongkong broke out, "Well, the Tark may be bad, capabilities of the Cantonese troops have enger who was sleeping in a bunk and the Empire generally very much less but who can pledge their sympathies with there, and passed through the other wall than his predecessor, Mr. Josepli Cham-such offsecurings of the earth ns are of the cabin. Another shell knacked berlain, at the Colonial Offico, be never represented by the Serving regicides ? " the bottom out of tore a way through the bridge deck and knocked the side out of a cabin on the deck below. Another shell made a breach on the starboard side of the lower dec' and considerably damaged the cabins, In all, four shells are believed to have been fired, three of which took effect. The send Chinese who met his death was killed on the upper deck, and is believed to have been shot by a rifle. The engines of the steamer were also damaged, and the woodwork surrounding the engine a few of the other people on boardroom shows that a hot rifle passengers and crew, were injured. The fire was directed Shing Pag had few passengers on board, but carried a big cargo of cattle. Hor passengers and crew escaped, but tai heal of cattle were shot, some so seriously that it was found necessary to destray then.
Owing to the fact that the officers and crew of the steamers which were fired upon by the troops are Chinese, and that they suddenly and unexpectedly received their baptism of fire, few of the nun inter. viewed by cur tepresentative yesterday could tell a coherent story; cach had a different version, although they were.
As it was, two Chinese passeu
they were probably panic-stricken when
mostly of one opinion regarding the main points of the attack,
ter,
with lifeboat.theless for ten years filled that high office a dignity and honourable achievement that justified bis selection by Mr. Balfour from the back benches of the House Everyone who ever had anything to do with him, however, regarded hina with feelings far deeper than usually fall He had to a politician or a lawyer. friends in all parties of the House very soon after he entered the Chamber as tho successor to the late Speaker Peel. If the fatos had run that way he would have made a fine Speaker himself, for his remarkable përsonal churin was such that on that guar-few could withstand it. Nevertheless he The chief engineer war shot in the was not quite the great success, in the right hand, but remained at his post until material sense, in law or politics that his the ship was taken beyond the range of friends predicted. Perhaps there was tallet had penetrated the steam pipe, that in politics, as at college, he always the guns. Then it was discovered that a some commercial drawback in the fact
The vessel, however, reached· Samshi
played cricket," Nohodly ever was able under her own steam, but could not con- to accuse "Afred Lyttletons he was Samshui she was taken in tow by the the bitter days of the Chinese labour tinue her voyage to Hongkong, From known to all-of dirty tactics, and even
Licorne and arrived in port yesterday debates, when he was assailed with un- morning, when the Authorities were noti- usual vituperation, he kept a cool head
and an unfailing courtesy.: fed of the occurrence.
How heavy Yesterday the io Kuui was a centre of the blow was to Me. Balfour might be interest, being inspected throughout seen reflected in the fact that the ex-leader the day
large number of ¦ was absent from the House when the people, who were showner procured eulogy of his late close friend was pro particles of the shells which had wrought such damage.
Her erew
were eagerly questioned by European ladies and gentlemen, but as their knowledge of English was generally meagre they were unable to satisfy the curiosity of their questioners,
We understand that it is the intention of the steamship companies running on the West River to discontinue their service for the present unless more assuring reports are forthcoming from the few
returned to port. steamers on this line which have not y
ounced, for he did not feel canal to the strain of listening to the well-merited praise. All sides are loud in their appre- ciation of the able oration pronounced by Mr. Asquith, who was also a close The Premier friend of Mr. Lyttleton. could scarcely control his emotion when he spoke of the dead man as one who cane. nearest to the mould and ideal of manhool which every English father would like to see his son asnije to, and if possible, attain.
It appears that three stramers--which we understand are owned by Messrs, Banker and Co. of that port-left Wuchow sornewhere about the same time, and followed one another down the river. The first to leave was the Shing Ping, which was followed by the if a Krai and succeeded by the Licorne. The passage was uneventful until the vessels turned into the narrow tributary of the West River leading to Samshui, which town is a usual port of call for these steaners,
number of Cantonese troops were quar On a hill on one side of this tributary a
tored; some of the ships' officers placed their strength at 2,000 men, and, as they carried field guns, it would appear that A report is going about that Chan they were in strong force. The attack Kwing Ming has replied to the proclamaun the ships appears to have been occ It is believed that there are about 200 tion that Jung issued offering 60,000 sioned by the fear that they carried Marines on the various foreign gunbonte dollars for his head by offering 100,000 General Lung's men, It was three o'clock for tickets, while on the river steamers it Young, the veteran Nationalist, who is ut the Shameen, and these, together with dollars for the arrest of General Laing, Festerday morning when the steainers is almost impossible to control them so
the Defence Corps, make the total strength about 500,
native
first stated to have
This sort of thing is very Chinese,
The City and Shamen are still very
We believe Mr. Chan Kwing Ming's quiet and outwardly there is no sign of any imminent trouble. Yesterday there pince-whither The was at
repaired-is was a sort of lull in the procession of Walchow, in Kwangtung Province, coolies carrying goods on to the Conces though he spent some years in the sions, whether because the godowns are all district of Sambue, near Swatow, as filled or because it was Sunday is hard to schoolmaster. He subsequently edited tell, though by the amount of stuff that Canton and was has found its way bere the place ought to newspaper in member of the Provincial Council of Can-he full up and running over. People ion when the first revolution broke out from Hongkong continue to come up expecting to find only charred ruins Wuchang. When news of that rising where the Slameen once was, vas received Mr. Chan Kwing Ming re- turned to the district of Waichow, and put
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himself at the head of a considerable body of men recruited from the robber hands which had long infested that district The Viceroy of the day dispatched fores against him but no fighting - took plage us before they reached Whichow, Canton had gone over to the revolution aries
A rumour was current in the Colony very late last night that Mr. Chan Kwing Ming was coming down to Hongkong by
the steamer Hirigshan.
the
Our. representative. awaited steamer's arrival for the purpose of verify Ing the report. The Praya vas crowded with Chinese, who hid doubtless got wind
of the rumour, and conspicuous on the wharf were numerous members of the police force.
The Captain-Superinter-
.........REJOICINGS IN HONGKONG,
Chinatown rejoiced last night over
ebreast of the kill on which the troops were stationed and, without any: warning of any kind, the soldiers opened fire upon them. The leading steamer, the Shing ing. Was riddled with rifle bullets, but appears to have got out of the danger on before the guns were brought to bear
upon ber.
EXODUS FROM CANTON
CONTINUES. -- Chinese refugers continue to fuck into the Colony from Canton both by railway and river stemmer. It is reported that on the railway they are offering big prices
MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S CHETI DAY, To-night the admirers of lus predeces sor, Mr. Chamberlain, are eelebrating the seventy-seventh anniversary of that states- man's birth. It is interesting to note than West Birmingham's distinguished that there are only three meinbars older
These are Mr. Samuel.
representative.
in his winety-second year, Mr. Jesso Collings, who was born in 1831, and Sir Thomas Roe, the sraior member for Derby, who will be eighty one next Suu day-
great is the rush on board as soon as steamer arrives. The steamer Home which arrived in port on Sunday night, brought 2,500 passengers, and the 55. Petshan, which arrived yesterday after noon brought another 1,800 refugees, while enthusiasts in the present vital necessities
the smaller river steamers arriving all brought full complements of passengers,
The steamer Heunghar made an extra trip from Canton yesterday, arriving last night with a full general cargo and
Rumerous passengers.
The Wo Krah, the second steamer, bore the brunt of the attack and is riddled with rifle bullets and badly torn with stell. The officer of the watch on the Llcome, the Inst steamer of the three, when he heard the fring promptly turned his ship about and sent her back on her course at full speed ahead, until A WOOSUNG FORT DEMOLISHED. well out of the hring zone, when he anchored for the night. His speedy barded the Woosung forts, and the furt
The cruisers on Sunday again bom
action saved his ship considerable dam- uge, for she came cut of the attack with nothing but a few bullet marks in her
woodwork.
the fight of Chan Kwing Ming Rockets and fireworks of all descriptions.
The unfortunate Wo Mrdi, however, as were exploded in the streets outside the previously stated, took the whole brunt main business houses, and the scene was of the attack, and as she lay at her wharf
The in Hongkong yesterday bore ample testi one of considerable animation:" thoroughfares are literally alive with
mony to the ferro fre through which sho Chinese, old and young, strming to have had passed Seen from the sharf one their cup of happiness filled to the brim was inclined to think the reports of her by the ex-Governor-General's flight. Here experience exaggerated, but this impres
was promptly and there were to be seen respectable son looking, elderly Chinese actually dancing boarding her
on
known as Sucktong was partly desno shed, its commander being wounded.
The naval commander demanded the sur render of the forts. The reply hus not yet been received.
REBELS IN HUPEH AND NEAR-
NANKING.
The scantiness of news from the Yangtze region confirms the reports that the rising is practicably suppressed in those regions. There are still a few
anding the bodies of rebels holding out..
CHISA. 21851ON62"
In view of the belief of missionary
of the movement in China, there is much bewailing of the fact that the Church Missionary Society has a deficit of £28,000 on its year's operations." To-day it will decide, through its General Com mittce, the question of taking either a permanent step forward or retrenchment. The position was discussed at a conference at Swanwick in May, when resolutions were unanimously adopted for submission to this Committee mecting. The confer enco arged, among other proposals, neither to cut down the estimates nor to seep back missionaries who were ready to go out, and it encouragement of this policy it raised at once £12,000 towards a special fund of £100,000.0
saver
· THE BÁLKAN WAR, With the miserable, and discreditable reopening of the Balkan war has gone the long dream of a great Balkan Confedera
ion that has been scaring Germany and Austria in the mast few years. These Slay aspirations seeraed on the eve
of
BRTISH POLITICS. Tho Conservatives at last are getting together a social programme with which to offset the gaudy offerings of the Chair cellor of the Exchequer to the democracy whim. Lord Lansdowne has set out the that now rules us all according to its plan of his mud reform scheme. Tho bext step comes next week when Lord introduce and explain a Bill to amend Henry Cavendish-Bentinck intends to and consolidate the Acts as to Sunday employment, and to regulate the condi tions of labour upon the basin, et working days in the week, with Sunday as the normal rest day. There is no doubt that there has been considerable laxity of late yours in Bunday observance, and the proposals would be quite in line with old English usage, but there will be considerable opposition to stricter legisla tion on the subject, for the greater
thing between the English and the Con propensity to travel has compelled a large uuniber of people to believe that some-
tinental systems is the happy mean.. Foreigners are still grumbling about the
untery against the growth of facilities deadly dullness of our seventh day, while on the other hand there is perpetual
for sport and pleasure, and Hull, for instance, is this weck organising a great Sabbatarian protest because a well-known aviator made a public ascint from that town on a Sunday...
INTIMATIONS
SORE UNDER KNEE
CONSTANT ITCHING
Nearly Unbearable. Caused Great Pain. Always Bunning. Could Get Little Sleep. Half a Tin-of Cuticura Ointment Healed Sore.
3. Russell St., Huß. Yorks, Eng:-"I had hyen troubled with a soro unler my kive which caussi ine great pain through its
constant Italing. The part wincied was the fish dat podor my kudo sbout eight inches lung. Is began by a carsfont. Holding nearly unbearable, and was al
} waya rasuing. I coutel get to sleep to 16 wan always worse when my bonly way warmáħnight,
"I tried søveral remo dies which utterly falled, I happement to seo an
advertisement one day about Cutleura Olstment and I thought I would try it.. I used only one half a tin of Cutleura Olot- uent and dat completely leated the sore which I had been troubled with for no less. than eighteen cutlis." (Signed) Frod
Hudson, July 3, 112.
Cuticura Soap and Outleurs Ointment are sold ovncywhere. No other enollente do so much for pimples, blackheads, red, roughi skins, Itching. sraty salius, dry, thin ond alling hale: chapped hands and shapeless mails, ker do it en vronomically. A sample of each with az-p.skin book free from near est depoti: F. Newbery & Sons, 27, “Chartér-, house Sq. London; R. Tow& Co..Sydney.. NS. W Lunetan, bet, Cape Town: "Mut...' fer, Muclean 1&; Co., Caleisita and Rombay: Potter D. &C. Corp., Busten, U.
** Tender-faced men should, stive with Outleura Song Shaving Stick. Sample tros.
HOWARD
196-2
WATCHES.
THE AMERICAN WATCH
with evident delight. and with scant destruction wrought. Not only is the On the 3rd inst. the Cheungshun fort, accomplishinent when the allies lined up regard for the proverbial Oriental woodwork of her upper and bridgsar Nasking was still in the posses and defeated the Turk. That was why OF FINEST QUALITY AND HIGH PRECISION. gravity and composure. It has been decks thickly punctured by rifle bullets, of rebels. generally understood that Chan Kwing but larger holes in her deck-houses and Ming's action was not endorsed by the Hongkong Chinese, and the evidence afforded on all sides last night, fully con- firmed that impression.
sides indicate where she has been torn by shell. It was apparent from her appear ance that he fire had been concentrated on the wheel house and amidships, fer little of the vessel in this gaster had escaped the storm of shot and shell with A mob of Chinese surroanded the offices which she had been
Aul the
CHINESE NEWSPAPER OFFICE STONED.
A detachment of loyal troops captured place called Shayeung in Hupeh, the rebels fleeing to Kingmon.
A
their
DEMAND TO SEARCH FOREIGNERS HOUSES The Waichinopu suras days ago sent separate Notes to all the Legations asking whetage they would agtes to Nationals being able to domiciliary
arrested assisting rebels, the Legations would be willing to allow their Nationals in such circumstancee tu he tried by
the Austrian diplomats insisted . SO firmly on the autonomy of Albania, It was the existence of the Balkan League which supplied the German military authorities with an effective argument for the increase of the German Army, and the Blay rather than the French peril was used to secure support for the Army Bill,
of a Chinese newspaper, whose policy is points at which the shell struck, and the dent of Police (Mr. Messer), together strangly anti-Yuan, and stoned the places where some of the rifle bullets were with Mr. T. H. King, Chief Inspector premises, which are in close proximity to lodged, indicate that there are some cup visits, and, also, whether, if any are untcome. The Triple Alliance having
Courlay, and Chief Detective Inspector the Fire Brigade Station in Queen's Collett were early on the scene, and were Road. The police promptly made their eridently expecting the arrival of Chan presence felt, however, and the dis orderly rabble was quickly dispersed.
fees, only one window being smashed. CHINESE GUNBOATS IN HONGKONG.
readiness outside the wharf, The police boarded the steamer immediately on arrival, but diligent and searching on- quiries failed to find Chan up to some time after midnight. The opinion is held
able
gunners and fair riflemen among the Cantonese troops.
Lying alongside the wharf, port side on, the first thing the spectator observed
ADJUSTED (ren" TEMPERATURE) AND-
With the squabbl over the division oF THE the spoils the pan-Slav peril has disap- peared, and Vicand and Constantinoples aro doubtless both delighted with the
determined that it has no concern with the quarrels of the allies, there is nothing for it but to await the outcome of a
-POSITIONS
PRICE OF THE HOWARD
WATCH IS FIXED
AT THE FACTORÝ
WHITE OF SEND FUE CATALOGEE
THE SOLE AGENTS,
Kwing Ming. A motor-car was held in very little damage was done to the was her awnings `riddled with shot, her Chinese Court Martial according to struggle that for hendish hate and cruelty lifebuoys stripped of their canvas and the Chinese: Law. The Legations had not will surpass that bezween the allies and bridge screen perforated with bullet holes replied when the report was telegraphed the abhorred Turk No fereer wor Boarding her and proceeding to the on the Sóth ult, but as the Notes suggest message has been penned in recent years. bridge deck, the first object of interesta procedure dicretly contrary to treaties, than that sent to London this week from was the whe, house, where two little holes it is a foregone colusion that unani Mr. Francis McCullough, who won cou in the pane of glass before the wheel mous rejections will be sent in reply. As siderable faive in the Far East in fortat CHS. J. GAUPP indicate what two bullets, sped, both of regarde domiciliary visits, the Notes say days Writing from Belgrade, this fear which must have very nearly, if they did that foreign Consuls could accompany les correspondent pours stora not, hit the pilot. But his fate will prob Chinese officers when residences requiring Servians who are heaping indignities o ably never be known, for when the fire to be searched were not to far from Bulgarian prisoners, what time that opened upon the ship he left the wheel Consulates, thus indicating that this con- undesirable march, King Peter, MN And is said to have either fallen or cession is only asked for outside the treaty at the suffering and exhausted captives
SANSHUL
jumped overboard. Another pilot took parts and settlements. The Notes also from his balcony. The Bulgurs have been lis place, and notwithstanding the hail imply that searches are desired in order swift to exact retribution, and with their H.M.S. Sandpiper has gone up from of bullets, stood by the wheel until the to find offenders whom foreigners are capacity for late and revenge, there can Canton to Samshui,.
ship was out of the range of fire. One hiding.
be no doubt that these gratuitous, and
in official quarters that Chin Kwing Ming will be disguised.
Authentic news was received yesterday that General Lung with over 2,000 troops had taken up a position on both sides of the river at Shapo, about twelve miles. above Samship, which is occupied in force Ty rebel troops from Canton. Two Chinese gunboats are with General Lung and two with the rebels.
A Chinese gunboas named the Pu-pik which is said to have broken down at Tai O on Sunday, arrived at Samshuipo yesterday morning, and later in the day proceeded to the man-of-war anchorage. There are two other Chinese gunboats in port,
"SANDPIPER GOES TO
Confu
& CO.,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
CHATER ROAD.