Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Lu Jung-chien

Colonel Lu Jung-chien

陸榮簽字花亭

Colonel Lu Jung-chien was born at Tientsin in 1878, his native home is Tungshan Hsien, Chekiang Province. He received his preliminary education at the Police School in Paoting, Chihli, graduating in 1902. Colonel Lu then entered the Tientsin Training School for Police and completed the course in 1903, after which he joined the Tientsin Police Administration. In 1904 Colonel Lu became Chief of the Fourth Precinct of the First Police Station in Tientsin and in 1905 he was promoted to be Chief of the Third Station. In 1908 Colonel Lu was appointed Chief of the General Affairs Section of the Kiangsu Constabulary and in, 1909 he was transferred to Hankow as Advisor on Police Matters. Leaving Hankow service in 1913, Colonel Lu was made Director of the Bureau of Commercial Taxes at Fengtai, near Peking. In 1914 he became Proctor of Oil Administration Transporting Office at Loyang. Later he was promoted to be its co-director. In April 1916 Colonel Lu went to Hunan in connection with the Mission to Pacify Western Hunan and in 1917 he returned to Chihli becoming Chief of the Auditing Bureau of the Directorate General of the Metropolitan Flood Relief and Conservancy of which the ex-Premier Hsiung Hsi-lin was the Director-General. In 1918 Colonel Lu was appointed Advisor to the Woosung and Shanghai Constabulary. In 1920 he became Chief of the Secret Service. In 1923 he was promoted to be Chief of the General Affairs Section of the same office. In November 1923, following the assassination of General Hsu Kuo-liang, Colonel Lu was appointed Acting Chief of the Woosung and Shanghai Constabulary, which position he is still holding. Colonel Lu has been awarded by the Peking government the Third Class Chiaho Decoration.