'Mr. Chu Chang-nien, formerly' Minister to Sweden, Norway and. Finland, took up his new duties as Customs Superintendent here August_1 im succession to Me. H. 0. 'Tong, who is now the Salt' Commissioner for Kwangtung and Kwangsi. A large group of officials and friends called on Mr. Chu to congratulate him on his assumption fof the mew post, Born in Kiangsu Province, Mr. Chu was educated in England at Birmingham University. After his Teturn to China, he was appointed Secretary and Departmental Chief in the Ministry of Foreign Afairs: and the Ministry of Finance. When the National Government was est~ ablished at Nanking in 1927, he was
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