Mr. Chen Kung-po, president of the Legislative Yuan of the Nanking regime, was appointed Mayor of Greater Shanghai at a meeting held on Tuesday by the Executive Yuan, it was reported yesterday. Mr. Chen Yao-tsu was appointed chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, which post was vacated by Mr. Chen Kung-po.
Aged 48, the new Mayór has a long history in the Kuomintang, having served in the Chinese government before Nanking was taken by the "Japanese. He is a graduate of two universities in China and holds an M.A. degree granted by Columbia University. In the past, he had served as president of University of Canton, head of the political department of the Military Affairs Council and Minister of Industry.
After joining the new regime, he was appointed a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Committee, president of the Legislative Yuan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Military Affairs Council, and chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government.
The Nanking appointee is to succeed the late Mayor Fu Siao-en who was stabbed to death in his home in Hongkew recently by his own servant, who is still at large.
Thief Gets Five Years A Chinese was sentenced to five years' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court charged with participating in a robbery in which the American. Radio Company in Bubbling Well Road was relieved nf five imported radios. His accom-lice is still at large. He was ar-vested while he was trying to pawn sue of the stolen machines. her mouth. It is further alleged that the lower pert of her Lady was naked. Her father, upon learning of the nurse's death, rushed to the ^linic but he was not allowed to see he body, the petition states. It is further stated that there were two keys with which to open the bedroom of the nurse, one possessed by the nurse herself and the other by Lu Cheng-ching, business manager of *he clinic, It will be recalled that the business manager, his father and president of the clinic, and a doctor of the same establishment were tried many weeks ago by the lower court in connection with the case. They were alleged to have issued a death certificate without informing the French police beforehand, but they were all acquitted, the judge holding the opinion that the certificate had not been issued with criminal intent. An autopsy revealed that the nurse had died of sudden and acute heart trouble, but the certificate issued by the clinic said that she had died df apoplexy. mend
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