Celebrating the anniversary of the passing of the German Constitution at Weimar on August 11, 1919, local Germans, and their friends, attended a reception at! their Gonsulate-General in Whang-p00 Road, Consular, officials and naval and military officers of many, nations attended the reception. Prominent amongst them were a number of officers of the British forces in Shanghai, Italian and French naval officers, and. representatives from the U.'S. forces. Several Consuls-General were present, as well as Chinese officials, There was little. speech-making, espite the interesting develop ments in the political situation in germany which have just occurred.
won. Rudt, von Collenberg, Consul General, simply called for a to the' German Republic, which was founded on a united Germany in-1919, and to the health of the President of the German Reich.
'A notable feature of the celebra. tion were the. fow words of congratulation. uttered by M. Koechun, the Consul-Geneval for; France. M. Koechlin paid a gracefal tribute to Germany's courageous efforts to overcome, the difficult jtuation in which the. country
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