Managing Director of S.-N.R.
Mr, Chao Ching-hua, the newly. appointed managing director the Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railways, arrived here by train from Nanking at 9.30 p.m. on Sunday, and received a cordial welcome here, well as at various stations en route, from the officials of the line. He as accompanied from Wusieh by Mr. Yin, the retiring managing director of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway.
Mr. Chao Ching-hua is a native of Chinghua, Chekiang Province, and is of an age at which one's ability is shown to best advantage. He is known to possess exceptional executive ability, and is a great organizer and an expert in railway matters. In fact, the present success of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway is due to the groundwork done by him in 1914, when he was managing director of that line.
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