Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Germans Silenced Chinese Rebel Fort.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 28, 1913:
Commander Reports Fight Near Wu-Hu Between Cruiser Emden and Southerners.
MORE DEPUTIES ARRESTED
Others Flee from Peking, Fearing for Their Lives — Yuan Declares He Did Not Order the Arrests.
    BERLIN, Aug. 27. — The commanding officer of the German East Asiatic cruiser squadron reports to the Government that the Chinese rebels in the fort near Wu-Hu recently fired on the cruiser Emden with both rifles and cannon. The Emden immediately answered with twenty-five shots, silencing the fort.
    Advices received a week ago by the Foreign Office indicated that trouble was impending between the German warships and the southern revolutionaries. The rebel leader, in a letter to the German Consul at Nanking, declared that the Emden had bombarded the rebel positions on Lion Hill, and he announced his intention of retaliating on the German cruiser and the Consulate.

    PEKING, Aug. 27. — A crisis was reached here to-day owing to the arrest of nine more Members of Parliament. Since the proclamation of martial law in the capital arrests and summary executions have been of frequent occurrence, several of the victims being Deputies.
    Many of the Deputies have departed for the South in fear of their lives, and the assembly of a parliamentary quorum has been prevented on numerous occasions owing to rumors that the police intended to make further arrests.
    The Senate to-day passed a motion delegating the Speaker and Deputy Speaker to visit Provisional President Yuan Shih-kai and ask him for an explanation of the arrests, and also to inquire whether or not he still desired to govern China with the help of the Parliament. At the same time the Senate resolved not to sit again if the reply of Yuan proved unsatisfactory.
    The lower house passed resolutions of a similar kind.
    Yuan Shih-kai, replying to the parliamentary delegation which visited him at the palace this afternoon, said he knew nothing about the arrests of Deputies and would investigate the matter immediately.

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