Questioned as to the reports of impending official changes, Gen. Shing said that there would only be two changes made. The Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hsu Yuan, would be replaced by Mr. Chao Chuan, who bad been mmended for the post by Gen. Chang Hsueh-liang. Mr. Hsu, he said, would be given another, more able, appointment, though nothing had yet been done in this respect. The other change would be that concerning the post of the Commissioner of Shanghai and Woosung Police. Brig-Gen. Chang Tz-ying had asked for permission to be relieved as_he wished to join Gen. Chang Chung-chang (his brother-in-law) in Shantung. Gen. Vu Teen, Chief of Police in Mukden, would succeed him as Police Commissioner. Further, the people here were dissatisfied with Brig.-Gen. Chang.
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