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Mr. Sah Fu-moh was born at Ming-hou Hsien, Fukien province, in 1874. In 1889 he entered the Naval Academy at Tientsin and was graduated from it in 1894. Then he was given a position in the Board of Foreign Affairs. In 1895 he was appointed by Viceroy Liu of Kiangsu and Chekiang to assit Shen Tung-wou in the work of opening Woosung as as a treaty port. In 1896 he became Superintendent of the Chinese-Russian Railway Coal Mines. In 1900 Yuan Shih-kai, who was then Viceroy of Chihli, appointed him Assistant Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at Shan-haikuan. In 1901 Mr. San became director of the Ching-Hua Railway in Honan. In 1902 he was transferred to be Superintendent of the Tai-feng