Local Chinese intending to leave for abroad will have to apply to the Foreign Affairs Ministry in, Chunging for hu chao, says the "Sinwanao." The hu chao were formerly issued and signed by the Foreign Affairs Commissioner's office in.
Shanghai. When this of leo was abolished, they were issued by the eater Shanghai Bureau of Public Safety's No. 2 department at the Fequest of the Foreign Affairs Minis try.
Phe Greater Shanghai Bureau of Public Safety ceased to exist, after the Japanese occupation of the Chinese controlled area. The blank sheets of hu chao and seats left here were then handed over to. the Foreign Affairs Ministry's Shanghai once, but, within a short period, no such' sheets were available" in Shanghai, as hundreds of applications for them bad been received. Chi hose merchants and traders intending to leave for uproad continued to. the office for these sheets, with the result that they were told to apply the Ministry at Chungking for the
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