Yuan Sends 30,000 Against Rebels.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 26, 1913:
Chinese Government Makes a Supreme Effort to Crush Insurrection.
SHANGHAI LOYALISTS WIN
Repulse Repeated Assaults on the Arsenal, but Are Reported to be Weakening.
    LONDON, Saturday, July 26.— "Northern China and Manchuria now have sent every available soldier southward," says a dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from its Peking correspondent.
    "From daybreak," the correspondent continues, " Peking has resounded with bugles, as the garrison regiments marched out to entrain for Pukow. I counted twenty-five battalions of infantry, six batteries of modern quick-firers, four mountain batteries, two regiments of cavalry and other details, making 30,000 combatants.
    "The transport and supply columns departed three days ago. I therefore estimate that this army will be fully concentrated with the other corps at Su-Chow-Fu before the end of the month. Great progress was evident in the equipment, officering of the troops, and in the staff arrangements, and the Nanking confederates will encounter a modern army corps whose advance it will be difficult to arrest.
    "Yesterday two transports carrying 4,000 Northern troops, convoyed by three cruisers, left Taku. It is believed that they will assault the Wu Sung forts and attempt their prompt recapture. I cannot obtain accurate information from the Kiu-Kiang situation.
    "It is now evident that every available force, including the press and money, is being employed to crush the Southerners. Foreign experts are of the opinion that the Southerners wasted the last fortnight in throwing away priceless opportunities. Had they seized the arsenal promptly, they say, the power of the navy would have been neutralized, and the result would already have been settled, but poor Southern generalship has been frittering away time and men.
    "In Peking the campaign against the Kwo Ming Tang party is the fiercest. Many parliamentarians have been arrested and subsequently released, but the Procurator General announces that unless Gen. Huang-Sing, commander of the Southern army, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen, one of the chief revolutionaries, are expelled from its membership the party will be treated as a revolutionary society.
    "It is persistently rumored here that Japan is partially mobilizing the Sixth Kumamamoto and another division. No confirmation of this is obtainable. Japan's attitude is quite correct, being simply that of a watchful solicitude for the great interests that are being endangered."
    A dispatch to The Morning Post from Shanghai says it is now admitted that the arsenal there is becoming hard pressed by the Southerners.
    "The garrison," the correspondent adds, "has been harassed by sniping throughout the day, and is becoming exhausted as a result of three successive night attacks, it appears that only the support of the navy prevented its fall. The casualties of the Southerners to date are 1,200 men killed or wounded."