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With his TL soon to be published by Sea Lion Press, Hendryk has requested that it be rebooted here at AH.com where it all started. Let's begin with something that was never posted before--the actual POD:


CHINA PRESIDENT-ELECT YUAN SHIH-KAI DEAD
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HAD YET TO BE SWORN IN
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DIES TWELVE DAYS AFTER FORCING ABDICATION OF CHILD EMPEROR PU-YI
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BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IN PEKING DR. G.E. MORRISON


Peking, 24 February—Yuan Shih-kai, elected President by the provisional Senate of the Republic of China in Nanking on 14 February, died to-day in An Ting Hospital. Yuan was the leader of the Peiyang Army, China’s most modern military force, and had been chosen to replace Dr. Sun Yat-sen as President after brokering the abdication of Emperor Pu-Yi on 12 February on behalf of the republican revolutionaries. He was found unconscious in his chambers this morning; his personal physician diagnosed an acute fit of uremia and called for immediate hospitalisation. He sank in a coma while being rushed to hospital; all attempts to revive him proved fruitless and he was pronounced dead on 2:30 p.m. His death is likely to throw the fragile truce between monarchists and republicans in disarray unless an agreement can be reached on a successor. Vice-President Li Yuan-hung is expected to step in as acting President to-morrow. (Continues on Page 2)
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