Shelling Shanghai Foreign Quarter.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 29, 1913:
Rebels Believed to be Deliberately Training Guns on It — Boy Mortally Wounded.
    SHANGHAI, July 28 (midnight).— After two nights of quiet, firing was resumed here at 9 o'clock to-night.
    Shells burst over the band-stand in the foreign settlement. A Portuguese boy received mortal injuries and other foreigners had narrow escapes.
    At this hour the firing continues. The Northerners are holding their ground.
    It is suspected that the rebels are deliberately training their guns on the foreign settlement in revenge for the disarming by Shanghai volunteers of 300 soldiers and twelve officers at Chapei on Saturday.
    Panic prevails among the Chinese, crowds of whom are flocking into the foreign settlement from the native city.
    All the boundaries of the settlement are constantly patrolled by foreign detachments.
    The Japanese Admiral, who is the ranking officer of the foreign fleet, refuses to allow any bluejackets to enter Chapel to aid the volunteers on the ground that he does not desire to march troops into Chinese territory.
    Rebels to the number of 2,000 started a fierce attack on the Arsenal and maintained a brisk fusillade. The Government warships shelled the rebel position, but many of the shells fell in the foreign settlement.
    Wu-Sung has not yet been bombarded, although the foreign Consuls were warned that the warships would open fire against the forts to-night.

    HANKOW, July 28.— The rebels have dispersed southward from the Hu-Kow forts on both sides of the lake.
    The Northerners are following them.

    KONGKONG, July 28.— The British river steamers at Canton have been ordered by the Consul to have steam up, in readiness, if necessary, to embark the women and children from the suburb of Shameen, where most of the foreigners reside.
    There was a great exodus to-day of better-class Chinese from Canton to Hongkong.

    PEKING. Tuesday, July 29.— Gen. Huang-Sing, commander of the Southern forces, has tentatively declared for the separation of the North and South and the abandonment of the "Punish Yuan" expedition northward.
    Several columns of Southerners, aggregating about 3,000 men, arrived today at Nanking and later proceeded for Yangr-Chow, Province of Kiang-Su, with the supposed intention of threatening an attack on Gen. Hsu and his 3,000 men with a view to inducing them to join the Southerners.
    The Northerners meanwhile are converging on Nanking, while up the river, after recapturing the Hu-Kow forts, they are steadily dispersing the rebels, whose leaders are endeavoring with only partial success to prevent wholesale deseitions.
    Roger S. Greene, the American Consul General at Hankow, in a telegram to the legation here says that a Standard Oil Company boat and a British boat have been fired upon near Yo-Chow, on the Yang-Tse River, in the Province of Hu-Nan. This would indicate that the troops in that province are rebellious. It is notable that, although the maritime province of Che-Klang is surrounded by rebellious provinces, it still remains loyal to the Government.
    Rear-Admiral Nicholson, commander of the United States Asiatic fleet, who is proceeding up the Yang-Tse River on the cruiser Saratoga, telegraphs to the legation here that the situation at Ku-Ling has been relieved by the departure of the rebels.
    Amos P. Wilder, American Consul General at Shanghai, has advised the legation that American volunteers are participating with other foreigners in guarding the foreign settlement there.
    The diplomatic body in Peking met yesterday and agreed to fulfill the request of the Chinese Government that Chinese be no longer permitted to reside within the legation quarter, such residence being contrary to the protocol under which the quarter was established. The Government fears that plotters or assassins might lodge in the hotel.
    A number of members of Parliament belonging to the Kwo Ming Tang party, the radical revolutionary party in China, have departed from Peking. Those remaining will absent themselves from the Senate, where they have a majority, and prevent the confirmation of Hsiung Hsi-ling as Premier. Hsiung Hsi-Ling, who is an ex-Minister of Finance, is the nominee of President Yuan Shih-kai for the Premiership.
    The Government continues its work with half the Cabinet offices vacant.
    The Diplomatic Corps has refused the Chinese Government's request for permission to search foreign ships and foreign residences and to court-martial foreigners caught within the Chinese military lines.
    Much filibustering is going on, and there are persistent reports that Japanese officers are aiding the rebels. Vice President Li Yuen-heng is quoted as saying in an interview that Japanese concessionaires paid $5,000,000 for mining and other rights in the Province of Hu-Nan, and that with this money the rebels financed the present uprising.

    WASHINGTON, July 28.— Reports to the State Department to-day indicate that the Chinese Republic is making steady advances toward suppressing the revolution, and that the revolt will, it is expected, collapse because it is not supported by the commercial classes in the South.
    Rear Admiral Nicholson reported the arrival at Kiu-Kiang to-day of his flagship, the cruiser Saratoga, and the cruiser Cincinnati. His dispatches indicate that Americans and other foreigners there are safe.