Yuan's Army In Peril.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 22, 1913:
Its Fate Depends on the Loyalty of the Troops at Kiu-Kiang.
    LONDON, Tuesday, July 22.—A Peking dispatch to The Daily Telegraph says that the position of the Northerners at Kiu-Kiang in the Province of Kiang-Si is becoming precarious. The Sixth Division is virtually surrounded, and Northern reinforcements are unable to cross the Yang-Tse-Kiang, which is dominated by the Southern guns.
    Everything hinges on whether the Klu-Kiang forts and the still loyal troops go over to the Southerners. If they do so, the dispatch says, the Northerners are liable to destruction.

    FU-CHOW, July 21.—The Province of Fu-Kien to-day proclaimed its independence.