Shelling Wu-sung Forts.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 2, 1913:
Chinese Admiral Warns Shanghai of Impending Bombardment.
    SHANGHAI, Aug. 1.— Admiral Tseng, Commander of the Government fleet, has formally notified the consular and customs officials that it is his intention to bombard the Wu-Sung forts to-night. They are only ten miles from the city. All the Northern reinforcements have arrived at the arsenal, and 2,000 loyal troops from Hankow are in Shanghai.
    Dr. Sun Yat-sen, one of the leaders of the Southern rebellion, to-day declared that the reoccupation of the city of Nanking by Government forces was only temporary. The spirit of the Southerners, he affirmed, was undaunted, and they hoped to renew the struggle when arrangements with Kwang-tung and other Southern Provinces had been completed.
    Dr. Sun Yat-sen will leave Shanghai to-night for Hongkong, where he personally will make an appeal for further support in his campaign to overthrow President Yuan Shih-kai.

    LONDON, Aug. 2.—A dispatch to The Daily Telegraph from Peking says:
    "Admitting the failure of their present attempt, the Southerners have reverted to a slower plan of organizing all the Southern provinces and waging a long methodical war."