8-Day Armistice In Shanghai Fight.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 28, 1913:
Chinese Women Bomb Throwers Executed Under Martial Law in Peking.
REBELS LOSE HU-KOW FORTS
Their Capture Clears the Way for a Government Attack Upon the Insurgent Capital.
    LONDON, Monday, July 28.— The Morning Post Shanghai correspondent says the Red Cross Society has arranged an armistice between the Government forces and the rebels which probably will last eight days. The correspondent says that 800 Southerners have surrendered.
    A dispatch to The Daily Mail from Peking says:
    "The rebel leaders, disheartened by defeats and dissensions in their ranks, besides approaching President Yuan Shih-kai with a view to negotiating peace, are transferring their funds to Japan. Since martial law was declared here a number of 'dare dies,' who flocked to Peking when the revolt started, bringing large supplies of bombs, have been arrested and executed. Many of them were women."

    PEKING, July 27.— The capture by the loyalists of the Hu-Kow forts, (about 250 miles up the Yang-tse from Nanking,) after a joint land and naval attack on Friday night, is regarded as the most important news which reached Peking to-day from the seat of the rebellion in the south. In the capture of the forts the rebels lost their hold on the Yang-tse River, in Kiang-Si Province, and the river now is clear for the northerners to Nanking, where the forts held by the rebels prevent the fleet from passing.
    The southern troops on the Tien-Tsin-Pukow line are retiring southward from Hwai-Ho, evidently fearing that Gen. Hsu, at the junction of the Grand Canal and the Yang-tse, will unite with the northern forces and cut their communications. Hsu's command has been regarded as practically an outlaw band, but both sides are now willing to accept his assistance.
    It is thought the decisive combat of the rebellion may be fought at Nanking. The residents there are becoming apprehensive. The unemployed coolies are glad to receive food, promises of pay and hopes of loot, and are readily enlisting with the southerners.
    Major A. J. Bowley, the American Military Attaché, has gone to Shanghai.

    SHANGHAI, July 27.— The United States auxiliary cruiser Rainbow's bluejackets, who were landed on Saturday for a demonstration, are now guarding the foreign settlement with the men from the other foreign warships. The Rainbow was struck three times during the fighting last Friday.
    The whereabouts of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, one of the leaders of the revolt, is unknown.
    The Standard Oil Company's houseboat was commandeered near Su-Chow. Much of the money on board was taken. Afterward the boat was released.
    In accordance with a proclamation issued on Saturday the municipal police, reinforced by a strong body of Shanghai volunteers, went to-day to the rebel headquarters at Chapei, immediately north of the foreign settlement boundary, where they disarmed 300 soldiers and 12 officers and took six three-inch guns. There was no actual resistance on the part of the rebels, but for a brief period there appeared to be the prospect of a conflict. The rebels, however, were overawed by the firm attitude of the municipal police.

    NANKING, July 28.— When the rising began the Southern troops were rapidly rushed up the Tien-Tsin-Pukow railway, the rebel leaders being confident that Gen. Chang Hsu, in command of the Government forces, would join them or remain neutral. His opposition to the revolution, however, completely checked the advance of the rebels, who had no course except to fall back to the Huai River, as they were short of supplies, and their rear was threatened by the advance of the Northerners through the Province of Anhui.
    It is believed that the rebels will only fight a rear-guard action on the Huai River and will retreat to Nanking, where recruiting for their cause is brisk, chiefly among the coolies. There seems to be no lack of rifles.
    The recent fighting at Su-Chow was apparently heavy. Two hundred and fifty wounded men have been brought into Nanking, and it is believed that many others were abandoned in the retreat of the Southerners.