Mr. O, K. Yui was formally appointed Mayor of Shanghai by the Executive Yuan at its regular session held in Nanking yesterday morning.
Mr, Yui, who has been serving as Acting Mayor of China's biggest municipality since the appointment of Gen. Wu Te-chen to the post of Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Govetnment, is the fifth mayor of Shanghai since the founding of the City Government ten years ago.
Born at Hsin-hui. Kwangtung in 1896, the new Mayor graduated from St. John's University at Shanghai with a B, A, degree. Before joining the Shanghai City Government, Mr. Yui was a journalist on the Staff of the "Shanghai Gazette," which is the present "Evening Post."
Among the Government posts Mi Yui has held are included the foHowing: secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wuhan Nationalist Government; secretary of the Shanghai City Government; senior counseller and "acting Commissioner of Finance of the City Government.
Since 1928, Mr. Yui was the Secretary-General of the Municipality.
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