Chinese Going Abroad Must Apply to Chungking Local Chinese intending to leave for abroad will have to apply to the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Chungking for hu chao, says the "Sinwanpao." The hu chao were former': issued and signed by the Foreign Affairs Commissioner's office in Shanghai. When this office was abolished, they were issued by the Greater Shanghai Bureau of Public Safety's No. 2 department at the request of the Foreign Affairs Ministry. The 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 seals left here were then handed over to the Foreign Affaits Ministry's Shanghai office, but, within a short period, no such sheets were available in Shanghai, as hundreds of applications for them had been received. Chinese merchants and traders intending to leave for abroad continued to the office for these sheets, with the result that they were told to apply to the Ministry at Chungking for the
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