Chinese Rebellion Takes New Start.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 10, 1913:
Insurgents Said to Have Regained Possession of Their Nanking Stronghold.
STILL HOLD WU-SUNG FORTS
Revolt in Sze-Chuen Province Serious — Rebels Hampered by Poor Organization.
    PEKING, Aug. 9.— It is reliably reported from Nanking that the Southern Chinese rebels last evening occupied Government House there and are again in command of Nanking.
    Consular and other reports from the Yang-tse Valley indicate that the Chinese Government is making little headway against the rebels at Nanking and Shanghai, The railway from Tien-Tsin to Pukow is not yet opened.
    The revolt at Chung-king in the Province of Sze-chuen is regarded as offsetting the minor Government successes of the week; but the rebels have no central organization, and many or the so-called revolts are only mutinies among the troops, whose object is to obtain peace money from the Government.
    A dispatch from Ching-kiang states that the rebels have offered to surrender the forts for $75,000.

    AMOY, Aug. 9.— The Japanese Government to-day sent a demand to the Chinese authorities here for the execution of three of the semi-Mongolian Tungan tribesmen and also an indemnity for the destruction of property and the killing and wounding of a number of Formosans in the recent clan fighting in this city. The demands must be fulfilled by to-morrow, according to the note sent by the Japanese.
    The Chinese officials replied, agreeing to the conditions, except as to the time for carrying them out. They say it is impossible for them to effect the arrest of the clansmen in the period stated, as they have fled to the interior of the province.

    TOKIO, Aug. 9.— Gen. Huang Sing who was the Field Marshal of the rebel forces in Southern China and upon whose head President Yuan Shih-kai placed a price, landed to-day at Nagasaki.

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.— Efforts of the Peking Government to place dependable troops in Nanking and Chin-kiang, where the troops revolted against the Government but later resumed their allegiance, will be resisted, according to opinions expressed in a report to the State Department to-day from the American Legation at Peking. Reinforcements are being sent, it was added, to force the surrender of the forts at Wu-Sung, Kiangsu province, which are still held by the rebels against fierce attacks by the northern forces.