Belgian M ister Presides at Mass Attended by Foreign and Chinese Officials With simple and solemn dignity, the memory of Her Majesty Astrid, Queen of the Belgians, who died in a motor accident near Lake Lucerne ten days ago, was honoured on Saturday in Shanghai at a service held in St. Joseph's Church, Rue Montauban." In the same church, February, 19%4, a similar service was held in honour of the late King of the Belgians, Albert 1, who fell to his death while mountain climbing. King Albert was the father of the present bereaved King, Leopold If.
Tt was an impressive assembly of cfticials—Ambassadors, Ministers, Consuls, military, naval, and civic dignitaries, as well as nine members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy—which attended the solemn High Mass said for the repose of Queen Astrid's soul, and in addition there were many, seated less conspicuously in the large edifice, who represented the rank and file of the friends of Belgium in Shanghai and many of whom sill bore the marks of the late war. There were also, in at-Utudes of absorbed devotion, the Daughters of Charity in their' char-eristic white head.dress, the Mores Auxiliatrices clu Purgatoire and other Saussine, Commercial Attache lot France with rank of Minister Mr. A. H. George, HM, Acting Commercial Counsellor "The Consular representatives in-
Senor', Vazquez Ferrer, Consul-General for Spain: Here Junker, represent Consul-General of Germany Mario de Costello "Branco, General of Brazil: Mr. V. Niskanen, Acting Consul-General' of Finland: ite a, von. Hartmansdorft, Acting Consul-General of." Sweden! it. "Int. H.'Kh Key Ostovan, Consul of Tran; Senor Mauricio Fresco, Coneul "Mogens Iv Consul of Denmark.
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