The first meeting of the newly-elected Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce was held in the Chambers new quarters at the American Club on Friday at which time officers for 1938 were elected as follows: President: Mr.
W. H. Plant; Vice-President: Mr. A. E. Schumacher; Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Bruce Smith; Secretary: Mr. James M. Howes.
About eighty persons, prominent in the consular, diplomatic and commercial life of Shanghai, were entertained at cocktails on Friday by Mr. Paul Scheel, Consul-General of Denmark, at his residence in Grosvenor House:
Those who attend the party were:
Che Swedish Minister, Baron J. Beck-Friis; the Danish Minister, Mr. Oscar de Oxholm; Mr. T. Y. Lo, former Chinese Minister (0 Denmark, and Mme. Lo; the Chilean Charge d'Affaires, Sr. E. Vega; Lady Maze; Maj. Gen. A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett fang Mrs. Telfer-Smollett; Mr. M. Aall, Consul-General of Norway and Senior Consul; Count and Countess H. Brockenhuus-Schack; Besides the usual matters arising out of the continuation of restrictions and hindrances to business in the de Gherardi: the matter of mails, Mrs. Mr. L. H. Lawford and Miss Lawford; Mrs.
Russell Sun; deviated and sequestered cargoes, etc., Mr. and Mrs. F. Hoehnke; Mr. H. G. the Directors also considered ways and means of more effective approach to sources of influence in America.
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