News Notes from China’s Capital: February 6, 1946

News Notes from China’s Capital
(By the Chinese News Service-Official Agency)
Honolulu Star Bulletin. Wednesday, February 6, 1946. Page 8, col. 1-2.

CHUNGKING. Dr. Wei Tao-ming, Chinese ambassador to the United States, and Dr. Hollington Tong, former vice minister of information, left January 30 for Shanghai on their way to America.

Averill Harriman, U.S. ambassador to Soviet Russia, who recently arrived here for a short visit, also left for Shanghai returning to the United States. During his stay in Chungking, Ambassador Harriman was President Chiang’s house guest.

Dr. T.V. Soong, who was scheduled to fly to Taiwan (Formosa) on January 29, cancelled the trip due to engine trouble in his plane. He left Canton for Shanghai.

Gen. Chou En-lai and Lu Ting-I, Communist delegates to the political consultation conference, returned to Chungking from Yenan. The two went to Yenan on January 27 to report to the Communist party on the progress of the unity conference in Chungking.

Dr. P.H. Chang, counselor of the executive yuan (cabinet), has been slated as Chinese consul general in New York, succeeding Dr. James Tsung-hi Yu who will be transferred to another post shortly.

Born in Tientsin in 1902, Dr. Chang graduated from the Nankai University in 1920. He studied in England and Germany between 1920 and 1925. In 1934 he was appointed counselor of the executive yuan (cabinet), a post he will vacate when he leaves for New York. Dr. Chang has been a government spokesman at the weekly press conference in Chungking for the last two years.