Amoy, July 24.
It is reported that in view of its popiulaticn, and commercial and financial importance, the National Government is considering: to be under the dizeet jurisdietion of the Executive Yuan. It is stated that either Admiral Chen Chicliang, Commander of the Ist Naval Squadron, or General Chen Kuo-keng, Gendarmerie Commander and Changchow, may be appointed the first Mayor of At present there are six special municipalities": Nanking, Shanghai, Canton, Tientsin, Peking and. Tsingiao. Being under the control of the Executive Yuan, they are independent of the Provincial Governments within whose Lersitory
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