The Archive · 1940

"new Mayor to Be Sworn In Tomorrow

Other New Officials Also To Take Office

Mr. Chen Kung-po, the new Mayor of the Shanghai Special Municipality appointed by the new Nanking regime, is expected to be sworn into office tomorrow morning in {he rinќon court; Chinese city government building at Kiangwan, having already arrived here from Nanking by air. It is announced by the Central Press Service that the three new Bureau heads appointed by Mayor Chen will also assume their new duties on the same They are heads of the Bureaux of Social Affairs, Finance and Public Utilities. Mr. Yuen Hou-tze, the newly appointed head of Bureau of Finance has also arrived here from Nanking by train. Mr. Ssu Shi-wen, acting Mayor of the Chinese regime, is reported to be engaged in preparing to hand over his portfolio to the successor of the late Mayor Fu Slao-

Mr. Hu Chieh-wu, general secretary of the Legislative Yuan at Nanking, has just been appointed general secretary of the Shanghai Special Municipality by Mr. Wong Ching-wei. Until he accepted the mayoralty, Mr. Chen Kung-po was president of the Legislative Yuan.

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