The revolt in the Southwest has helped the imagination of Government detectives to invent all kinds of stories about revolutionary activities, Shanghai naturally not being omitted. Beside numbers of stories of the projected seizure of the Arsenal and the Woosung Forts, of a gathering of members of the abolished Parliament order to elect a rival President and set up a rival government, and such like absurdities, they have now informed General Yang, our Military Commissioner, that certain revolutionary leader named Chang (probably intended to refer Mr. Chang Chi, the Speaker of the Lower House before the dissolation of the Parliament) had presided at a rebel conference held here at which it was decided to support the three independent provinces by every possible means and that in pursuance of this decision, over 20 secret agents had all important military positions, fortifications, and other points of strategic value.
General Yang has appointed several of his detectives to natrd suburban districts, including ha, with the view of rounding up thermo's Bridze and Lung-
any revolutionary spies.
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