Returning to China once more, Mr. Wan became in 1884 Chief OMcial Interpreter to Viceroy Liu of Kiangsu, Kiangsi and Anhwei. This post he held until 1895 when he became Commissioner of Foreign Affairs for Szechuen Province, He was later transferred to the Foreign Affairs Commission àt Nanking, In 1904, he served as Senior Consul to the Mission of Investigation in. Europe under Viceroy Tuan-fang. He visited all of the leading European countries where he received the following decorations for distinctive service: Third Class, Order of the Red Eagle, Germany; Second Class, Order of St, Stanislaus, Russia; Sec-and Class, Order of Gustavus Vassar, Sweden; Second Class, Order of Knight Commander of Oalaf, Norway; Second Class, Franz Josef Order, 1894 (the year the Emperor Francz Josef was crowned), Aus-trio; Second Class, The Order of the Grand Official, Italy After his return he was promoted io Chief Commissioner of Foreign affairs at Nanking with the rank of "taotai."
Two years later he was appointed Superintendent of Government Students to U.S.A. and he again went to America, this time with the l&rst group sent by Viceroy Tuan-fang, He returned in 1907 to be made a director of the Tientsin-
Pukow Railway, in which position he served one year. He was then made Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Tientsin and served concurrently as Councillor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After this he was adviser to the—Szechuen-Canton-
Hankow Railway Line until the overthrow of the Ching Dynasty, In the first year of the Chinese Republic, he served as Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at Nanking. From 1912 to 1919 he was Chief of General Affairs for the Construction of Na-
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