The Archive · 1922

New, Railway Appointments

Peking, May 30.

Mr. Tung Kang has invited Drs. Wellington Koo and Wang Chung-hui and Messrs Lin Chang-ming and Tsai Yuan-pei to a conference regarding the financial situation.

The following appointments are announced Mr. Chou Teh-shan, Chief of the Chefoo-Weihsien Railway, becomes Chief of the Railway Department of the Ministry of Communications (Mr. Hsu Chung-shih becomes Chief The Bureaux of the Ki ning and Chouchiakou-Hsiangyang Railways are abolished, as is also the post of Director of the Szepingchieh-Taonanfu Railway.—Reuter.

New Minister of Communications and His Broom Peking, May 31.

A mandate to-day appoints Mr.

1 Tseng-hsiang. Director of the Financial Reorganization Bureau and Mr. Hsueh Teh-ti Director of> the Honan Finance Bureau.

According to Opposition rumours, Mr. Kao En-hung has replaced' the officials ousted from the Ministry "of Communications by -Shantungese and has cancelled the dismissals, of several influential persons who have brought pressure to bear on_ im. 3 Interviewed this morning officials of the Ministry of Communications hotly: denied the rumours and stated that Mr. Kao En-hung had not retracted in a single instance, quoting the case of Mr. Hsu Shih-jong, the President's cousin,.as an example. Mr. Kao En-hung deprived Mr. Hsu of the posts of Director-General of the Tientsin-Pukow and Sinyang-Pukow

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