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Mr. Tsiang Tseng-yi was born at Haining Hsien, Chekiang Province, in 1877. In his youth he acquired high education in Chinese and became a Hsiu-t'sai or Licentiate in his teers and obtained the literary degree of Chu-jen or Provincial Graduate when he was little over twenty. In 1904 he attended the Metropolitan Competitive Examination and obtained the degree of Chin Shih, Metropolitan graduate, which is equivalent Ph.D. Having become a Chin-shih, Mr. Tsiang was awarded the rank of secretary of the Grand Secretariat of State. In the following seven years before the establishment of the Republic, Mr. Tsiang was at different times junior secretary of the Board of the Interior, junior secretary of the Board of Finance, assistant senior secretary of the Board of Communications and finally director in charge of the Department of Telegraphs of the Board of Communications. By that time the telegraphy service was partly in the hands of a commercial company. Upon becoming a director