The Chinese Ratepayers Association of the International Settlement will elect the five Chinese members of the Shanghai Municipal Council for the current year by means of "correspondence" and not by holding a meeting of its General Assembly as was customary in previous years. An official of the Association told ihe "North-China Daily News" yeso terday that the Chinese elections would be held just before the foreign ratepayers' elections and the results would be made known on or before April 1.
Hints given by official Chinese ratepayer circles and well informed Chinese indicate that the five old Chinese members of the Council might be re-elected as was done in previous year. The old Chinese members of the Council will, of course, include Mr. Chen Tingaih who was only recently selected to succeed Mr. Eugene Y. P. Kiang, former member of the Council black listed by Nanking who has become Vice President of Fuh Tan University in Chungking. The other four Chinese Councillors are Messrs. Vu Ya-ching, Gockson Kwok, Yulin Hsi, and L. T, Yuan.
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