REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
PRESIDENT POISONED
VIOLENT MEDICAL METHODS
SAVES HIS LIFE.
TOKIO, Aug. 30,
It is now revealed for the first time that Yuan-Shih-Kai's precipitate massing of the northern troops on the Yang-tse-Klang was due to southern agents poisoning him with arsenic. He lay in a state of collapse for many days, and only the most violent medical methods saved his life.
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Northern Advocate, 1 September 1913, Page 5
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62REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Northern Advocate, 1 September 1913, Page 5
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