A high tribute to M. Marcel Baudez, rench Consul-General in Shanghai, for ability shown under particularly difficult circumstances during 1997, was paid this morning by M. Paul-Emile Naggiar, French Ambassador to China, during a reception at the French Consulate, which was attendet by members of the French colony and foreign personalities.
French army and navy officers and members of he French Municipal Council were among those present at the reception.
M. Baudez, the Ambassador stated, gave to everyone an example of calm. action, and devotion to international good-will.
Thanking the members of the French Municipality for the efficient manner in which they dealt with the móst severe crisis Shanghai has ever passed through, M. Naggiar paid a Special tribute to Father Jacquinot, champion of France's virtues of pity and generosity, who saved from death thousands of innocent lives.
"We also ore a debt of gratitude to all our missionaries," M. "Naggiar continued. "Everywhere they have been seen remaining at their posts devoted, in spite of war and isolation, {o their charitable work and their high evangelical ideals. Such selt-denis) alas, was bound to result in tragic losses, such as were experienced in the fearful massacre at Chenting, caused by the excesses of a soldiery <scapet from all discipline in a foreign Concluding his address, the Ambas-sádor expressed the hope that the dramátie Far Eastern crisis may soon be settled on a basis of mutual respect for each others strong personality, by the two great Asiatic nations with whom France maintain her traditional relations of friendship.
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