The cruiser Primauguet presented a. gala appearance on July 12 when. Vice-Admiral Berthelot was Mat home" to a large number of nests, thus opening. the celebra jons in honour of "lo Quatorz With traditional verve and thusiasm, and in a manner whose thoroughness. impressed upon the privileged foreign guests the Patriotiom existing in "this lit distant. corner of France", Shanghai's Frenclt community oh: arvel the national day" of their The day's ceremonies opened with the raising of the flag at the French Consulate-General at 7.30 a.m, Detachments from the military and naval forces formed guards of honour in the courtyard,-and many Prominent officers from the French Army and Navy were preseat, At the sounding of a salute by buglers, the "French Consul-General, Meyrier, stepped on to. the balcony and acknowledged the salute of the Guards of honour. Another bugle fall was sounded as the colour slow-rose to the top of the mast, the ceremony concluding with the playing of the Marseillaise.
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