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Perhaps no other man has done more to improve the public utilities and sanitary conditions in Chapei Mr. Hsu Jen-tsing, director of the Chapei Public Works, who also holds the office of the Chief of Commissariat of the Yamen of the Military Governor of Sunkiang and Shanghai. Mr. Hsu is forty-nine years old and is a native of Wuhsien, Kiangsu. After receiving his preliminary education under the old literary examination system, he served as secretary to various high officials in North and South China as well as those along the Yangtsze Valley. Later he received a high course of education in finance and law and held several important positions in Kwangtung Province. In 1913 he was appointed by Admiral Tseng Jucheng, then Military Commissioner of Shanghai to join his commissariat. When General Yang Shan-teh succeeded Admiral