The Archive · 1924

Rival Officials of Shanghai

Col. Wang Sent Back by Nan-

King to Police Commissioner ship Claimed by Mr. Doo Col, Wang Kuo-pang, Nanki nominee for the post of Commi for of Shanghai and Woosung Constabulary, who, on "Friday. last, handed over his seals of office, under compulsion, to a sectional chief named Doo, an appointee of the local Defence Commissioner, Gen, Chang Yuan-ming, has been ordered by the Kiangsu Provincial authorities, including Mr, Han Kuo-chun, Civil Governor of Kiangsu, Gen; Wang Kuei-ling, Commissioner-General of Kinmgew Provincial Police Department, to remain in office and to move his headquarters to Chapei, where will be out of the reach of Ge Chang and under the wing of Gen, Kung Pang-doh, This makes the position of Shanghai as complicated as ever, and the Police in the northern section of Shanghai and Woosung fare inquiring whom they shall fobey—Col. Wang or Mr, Doo.

Two of Everything Shanghai has now two military chiefs, two police heads, two foreign commissioners and customs superintendents and two telegram office directors. Gen. Kung Pangdoh, Commander of the 19th Kiangsu Army—Division, and Occupation Commissioner at Nanking, was appointed to a similar post' in Shanghai, by Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, and Gon. Chang Yuan-ming, a divisional commander under the Tuli of Chekiang (Gen, Sun Chuan-fang), is his rival, Mr. Wen Shih-tsen, Commissioner of Foreign At and Superintendent of Custo promoted to the but the Huang Fu acting under instructions from Gen. Feng Vu-hsiang, appointed the former chief secretary of the Shanghai Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Mr.

Chen,

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