SHANGHAI COUNCIL
NEW BODY MEETS
LAST-MINUTE SENSATION
(Rec. 11 a.m.) SHANGHAI, May 1,
The new provisional council which is to govern the Shanghai International Settlement held its first meeting this afternoon and unanimously elected Mr. J. H. Liddell, a British subject born in China, as its chairman', and a Japanese, Mr. I. Okamoto, as vicechairman.
There was a last-minute sensation when it was learned that one of the two Chinese supporters of the Chungking Government who had been given seats on the council had^ been kidnapped by Wang Ching-wei elements and then released just in time to attend the meeting. He is Mr. L. T. Yuan, a 65-year-old veteran of the Government of the Shanghai settlement. The fact that he was released and attended the meeting has given rise to rumours that he was forced over to the Wang/Ching-wei side. The only other pro-Chungking Chinese on the council failed to attend the meeting.— U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1941, Page 8
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