Mr. Hsu Shih-chang, famous statesman and scholar, who was President China from 1918 to 1922, has died here at the age of 81.
Born at Tientsin in 1858, Mr. Hsu was appointed a Hanlin' Compiler under the Manchu regime in 1886.
He became senior councillor of the board of commerce in 1903, and two years later was made a Minister of the Government Council.
Tu 1906 het was made a Grand Councillor of State, and the next year was appoint-associate Premier, vice-President of the Privy Council and High Commissioner for the Emperor, In 1912 he was made Grand Guardian of the Emperor, and was appointed Secretary of Siate in 1914 and given the same post again in 1916, Mr. Hsu was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature "by 1921, and lias been Newer Education In Manchoukuo
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