The following official statement]
ade by Judge Wu was handed to the press:
On assuming the office of Acting President of the Shanghai to statement of] general" principles which will guide me during my brief administration:
"1. While this appointment} took' me by surprise and has Proved somewhat disconcert my original plans, it neve makes me grateful to the Pro-Vincial Government; for it shows that my Government has ful faith and trust in me, which T shall of course try my nimest to prove as being not misplaced.
2, By this time, T suppose, already well-known to the Shanghai public, both Chinese and foreign, that law was my only fol when T was a judge. Let me solemnly announce to the public to-day that law will remain only idl in presidential cuya '8. Tt is my sincere conviction that to stick to law at all costs is, in the long run and on the whole, the best way" of serving my country.
"4, As to the matter of integrity, I.betieve that I am above corruption and I believe and expect that the same is true of all my colleagues."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.