ABSTRACT
In 1922 Dr. V. K. Ting was placed at the head of a new coal-mining enterprise in southern Manchuria, Wong was chosen on his recommendation to succeed him as director of the Geological Survey of China and filled this office with the greatest success. In 1926 Ting was summoned from his directorship of the coal-field in Peipao to a much more important and difficult task as mayor of Greater Shanghai, the Chinese part of that metropolis. In December 1935 Ting, while on a geological expedition in the province of Hunan, was accidentally poisoned by carbon monoxide in his room at a Chinese hotel. After a few years of retirement spent in scientific work, Ting was appointed in 1934 to a great task of organization. The China Travel Service, a bureau which covers the whole country, was evidently only a part of the new traffic system.
