LARGE SUMS FOR VOTES
FOR YUAN SHIH-KAI. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, October 30. ;The Peking correspondent of "The Times," describing General Yuan ShihKai's election as prosidont, says that largo sums were expended by the President's supporters to ensuro his election, and that had more been forthcoming probably he would have been elected unanimously on the first ballot. A Chinoso friend showed tho correspondent two .hundred' pounds paid to him for voting according to instructions, and subsequently the correspondent found him deeply* dejected, ho having learned that be might have received fivo thousand pounds.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1895, 1 November 1913, Page 5
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97LARGE SUMS FOR VOTES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1895, 1 November 1913, Page 5
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