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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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been floated, as a sixmonths safety clause had permitted a delay duringwhich the Revolution had come. It was therefore nec-essary to begin the negotiations anew; and as the richprizes to be won in the Chinese lottery had attractedgeneral attention in the European financial worldthrough the advertisement which the Revolution hadgiven the country, a host of alternative loan proposalsnow lay at the dis)3osal of Peking. Consequently an extraordinary chapter of bargain-ing commenced. Warned that an International DebtCommission was the goal aimed at by official finance.Yuan Shih-kai and the various parties who made upthe Government of the day, though disagreeing on al-most every other question, were agreed that this dan-ger must be fought as a common enemy. Though theFour-Power group alleged that they held the firstoption on all Chinese loans, money had already been ad-vanced by a Franco-Belgian Syndicate to the amountof nearly two million pounds during the critical days of n :fmp,m^:*m^M.
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