Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1928, Volume II

893.42/232: Telegram

The Chargé in China ( Perkins ) to the Secretary of State

Peking , August 14, 1928—7 p.m.
[Received August 14—1:05 p.m.]

627. 1. C. T. Wang has telegraphed the Legation that Lo Chia-lun will be appointed president of Tsing Hua College and Mei Yi-chi as director of Tsing Hua students in the United States.

2. Lo, who recently has been head of a Kuomintang school in Nanking, is a close adherent of Chiang Kai-shek²⁰ and a favorite of Tsai Yuan-pei.²¹ He graduated from Peking University and had some two years at Columbia.

3. Mei Yi-chi, for some time dean, has latterly been acting president of Tsing Hua.

4. The Minister merely acknowledged Wang’s telegram and refrained from expressing either approval or disapproval.

Perkins

20. Generalissimo of the Chinese Nationalist armies.
21. Member of the Kuomintang Central Political Council.