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Title: The fight for the republic in China
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox), 1877-1930
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hilst 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 sufficient 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 Lilii i-chun and the so-called Second Revolution com-n^ei ^ed. tion. Tost important, however, is the historical fact that a group ofPow: r.i numbering the two great leaders of democracy in Europe—Eng-land and France—did everything they could in Peking to enthrone YuanShih-kai as dictator.
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