Chinese Rebels Now Have A Navy.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 21, 1913:
Ten Warships at Shanghai Are Threatening the Wu-Sung Forts.
CALLS YUAN A CRIMINAL
Canton Governor General Counts the China Loan One of Twelve Capital Offenses.
    LONDON, Monday, July 21.— Ten warships, including four cruisers, are at Shanghai in support of the southerners, according to a Peking dispatch to The Telegraph, and are cruising near the Wu-Sung forts. Seventy-five hundred southern troops have surrounded 1,600 northerners at the Kiang-Nan arsenal, and its fall is inevitable.

    HONG KONG, July 20.— Gov. Gen. Chan, who at Canton has proclaimed the independence of the Province of Kwang Tung, charges President Yuan Shih-Kai with having committed twelve crimes. These include the contracting of a loan and neglecting the Russo-Chinese treaty in regard to Mongolia and the possible abandonment of Outer Mongolia.
    Business has been almost suspended, and there is much apprehension for the future. The Chinese at Hong Kong, who are in favor of Yuan Shih-Kai, are surprised at the turn of events.

    PEKING, July 20.— The Chinese Government is still dispatching troops to subdue the revolutionary movement in the disaffected southern provinces, but has not withdrawn any troops from Mongolia. President Yuan Shih-Kai is anxious to proceed south to lead his troops, but his associates have persuaded him to remain in Peking for fear that he may be assassinated on the way to the scene of hostilities.
    It is now generally believed that Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the former Provisional President of the republic, who has taken sides with the southerners and is now at Nanking, and Gen. Huang Sing, the former Generalissimo of the revolutionary army, never intended to support President Yuan Shih-Kai permanently, but only to use him to bring the revolution to a successful end.