Ware aeroplanes scattering handbills to announce the for-motion of the Special Municipality of Shanghai droned over the Japanese-occupied areas around this city, Mr. Fu Siao-en was formally installed Mayor of Greater Shanghai at a ceremony held yesterday morning in the battered Civic Centre at Kiangwan. Celebrating the inauguration of the new pro-Japanese administration, a huge electric sign made its appearance at the Tungchang Road Wharf, Pootung, Saturday evening and was aglow again till late last night.
A native of Chekiang, the new Mayor is 67 years of age and is a banker by profession. ìn his business career he has been connected with various banks and public enterprises, including the Commercial bank of China, me china Merchants S.N. Ca, the Credit Franco-Chinois, transport in the shape of steamers owned by the China Merchants
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The Nanking Government ordered his arrest in 1927 but he escaped by taking refuge in Dairen. Later, he became a director of the Commercial Bank of China. and me Sino-French Navigation Ca.
He has also been active in public affairs, lor a time having close rejationships with Wu Pei-tu and Sun Chuan-fang, assisting the latter in his Wer against the Nationalist Revolutionary Armies (with whom was a rising general named Chiang: Kaishek) in 1927 by providing military Lord Stanley Dies in London Secretary for the Dominions Passes, Aged 42; Friend of Duke of Windsor
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