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Show ill! SITUATION ens SERIOUS Federal Army Moving on Southern City; Missionaries Arriving by HuncIreHs. HONGKONG, Aug. 3. The situation in Canton remains serious. Tho electric lights are cut off at midnight and th.6 people are fearful of a mutiny. Trains, Junks and other vessels leaving the city areipacked with refugees. A siege of Canton Can-ton is expected with the arrival hero of General Lung Chl-Kuang, commander of the government forces in the province of Kwang-Sl, who is moving southward on the city wLth his army. Soldiers are patrolling the streets of Canton, as the police there are unreliable. unre-liable. Seventy traitorous soldiers were shot in that city Friday. A reward, of $60,000 has been offered for the head of Governor Chan of Canton. Men with guns from British and French warships arc guarding the shamecn or foreign quarters of Canton, where valuables valu-ables worth millions of dollars are stored. The international fleet lying off tho city has been augmented by the arrival of American, German, .Japanese and French men of war. Soldiers have been sent from Hongkone: to Canton, and three naval vessels here aro ready to start for that point at a moment's notico with stores and additional troops. Missionaries who htivc been recalled from dlsaffoctcd districts arc arriving in Hongkong by hundreds. Fifty thousand refugees came Info this city last week. General Lung Chl-Kuang is a German-trained German-trained officer. The Cantonese troops are made up of untrained rabble. They are demanding double pay for their services. Following the bombardment of the Wu-Sung Wu-Sung forts early Saturday morning by government warships commanded by Admiral Ad-miral Tseng, the warships returned lo tho attack for a brief period later in tho day with tho apparent object of hastening has-tening the negotiations for the surrender of tho rebels who are holding the forts. The northern admirals aro undertaking a. large sweeping movement with a view lo cornering all the revolutionists in the Wu-Sung. Th rebels at Su-Chow-Fu aro retiring to their former position on the Hwal river and toward Pukow. LONDON. A uc. 1. "The rev-pit has ended in a fiasco." says tho Times' Pe-kin Pe-kin correspondent. "If further developments develop-ments occur they will result from the Introduction of new factors and fresh bases for operations. Dr. Sun Tat Sen says the revolt will be reorganized from the province of Kwang-Tung. whithor the leaders are reported to hav fled, but it is difficult to believe that the leaders who made such a mess of the present affair are capable of organizing another movement calculated in endanger the present administration." AMOY, Aug. 3. The cruiser Hal-Chen, which has ben in the hands of the southerners at Fu-Chow, has deserted lhlr causo. |