Tsingtao, Jan. 15.
General Chao Chi, Director-General of the Tsingtao Administration under he former Peiping regime, will mos! probably be appointed Governor of Tsingtao by the "Provisional Government" at Peiping, which has assumed Jurisdiction over. this port, according reports current here to-day. Lending support to these reports, a despatch has been received stating that General Chao is en route to Tsingtao by steamer, Although he has two rivals for the post—namely, Mr. Wen Shou-teh, another former Governor, and General Chu Hsuan-peng, commander of the Shantung provincial troops in Mr. Wen's time—General Chao's choice is most likely because he is persona grata with the Japanese a is Popular socially with other foreigners, Five Barred Flag to Be Hoisted It is expected that the five-barred flag will be hoisted if and when he assumes office. Tsingtao was the last place in all China to haul down this flag on the occasion of his departure from here on May 8, 1929. Before he left he gave instructions that the flag was to fly over the Administration Building until his ship left port for Dairen.
General Chao was Governor and Mayor from July 1925 to May 1929. when he left as a political refugee from the advancing Nationalist troops of General Chiang Kai-shek. He returned to Tsingtao after Admiral Shen Hung-lich was appointed Mayor, and remained here until last September, when he went to Tientsin, Railway guards and. employees of the Kaotsi Railway marched to the police station last evening to report that they had been told to leave the railway premises as the South Manchuria Railway was taking over.—Reuter.
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