The fight for the republic in China . whilst Annex E which covered thereorganization of the Salt Administration, absorbed thelast £2,000,000. The bank profits on this loan aloneamounted to 1% million pounds; whilst Yuan Shih-kaihimself was placed in possession by a system of weeklydisbursements of a sum roughly amounting to tenmillion sterling, which was amply sufiicient to allow himto wreak his will on his fellow-countrymen. Exasper-ated to the pitch of despair by this new development, theCentral and Southern provinces, after a couple ofmonths vain argument, began openly to arm. On the10th Ju
The fight for the republic in China . whilst Annex E which covered thereorganization of the Salt Administration, absorbed thelast £2,000,000. The bank profits on this loan aloneamounted to 1% million pounds; whilst Yuan Shih-kaihimself was placed in possession by a system of weeklydisbursements of a sum roughly amounting to tenmillion sterling, which was amply sufiicient to allow himto wreak his will on his fellow-countrymen. Exasper-ated to the pitch of despair by this new development, theCentral and Southern provinces, after a couple ofmonths vain argument, began openly to arm. On the10th July in Kiangse province on the river Yangtszethe Northern garrisons were fired upon from the Hu-kow forts by the provincial troops under General Liliiv. i-chun and the so-called Second Revolution com-rnei ^ed. t! Tost important, however, is the historical fact that a group ofJOMn numbering the two great leaders of democracy in Europe—Eng-land and France—did everything they could in Peking to enthrone YuanShih-kai as REPUBLIC IN CHINA 53 The campaign was short and inglorious. The South,ill-furnished with munitions and practically penniless,and always confronted by the same well-trained North-ern Divisions who had proved themselves invincible onlyeighteen months before, fought hard for a while, butnever became a serious menace to the Central Gov-ernment owing to the lack of co-operation between thevarious Rebel forces in the field. The Kiangse troopsunder General Li Lieh-chun, who numbered at most20,000 men, fought stiffly, it is true, for a while but wereunable to strike with any success and were graduallydriven far back from the river into the mountains ofKiangse where their numbers rapidly melted redoubtable revolutionary Huang Hsin, who hadproved useful as a propagandist and a bomb-throwerin earlier days, but who was useless in serious warfare,although he assumed command of the Nanking garri-son which had revolted to a man, and attempted amarch up
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