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CHINA'S PRESIDENT.

YUAN SHIH-KAI ELECTED.

TWELVE HOURS' BALLOTING

(Received October 7, 9.55 a.m,) PEKING, October 6. The Presidential ballots lasted 12 hours, 759 members voting. There were twenty nominations, including Dr Sun Yat Sen. The first ballot was inconclusive. General Yuan Shih-Kai secured 471 votes and general Li Yttanfeung 154. The second ballot was also inconclusive—• Yuan Shih-Kai 497, Li Yuanliung 162. At the third ballot Yuan ShihKai was elected!, by 507 votes to Li Yua tuning's 179.

PURCHASING VOTES. '

PUBLIC INDIFFERENT

(Received Last Niglit, 11.10 o'clock.) PEKING, October 7.

Lobby estimates agree that two hundred votes were purchased last week, and exercised a decisive influence on the Presidential election.

The public were absolutely indifferent to the result of the election. A photographer in the gallery, without warning, took a flashlight photograph of the final voting. The magnesium light was mistaken for a bomb, and was the signal for a wild panic.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 October 1913, Page 5

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152

CHINA'S PRESIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 October 1913, Page 5

CHINA'S PRESIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 October 1913, Page 5

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