Without venturing to enter into those abstruse issues which are discussed se where, in song and prose, it is possible to observe that the weather fu Shanghai is assuming a summery mood. The art of keeping, cool and staving off thirst becomes important. Some held to the view that the chief secret of keeping cool is derived from steady refusal to treat the weather fs. serianly "as the thermometer Would suggest. This does not mean years' absence is France's first Am-Dassador to this country. He receives warm welcome from his old friends who knew him as an able Consul-General in Shanghai from 1020 1020 and earlier as the acting Consul-General in 1918 before he went to Yunnan. "Altogether M, Naggiar has knows China for some twenty-four and he has varied distinguished rvieo in other parts of the world with a spell "of "duty at the Quai WOrsay where he for some time had charge of Asiatic affairs, His Excel-Teney received an enthusiastic greet-Ing from his compatriots and Chinese friends yesterday. His return will add to the diplomatic corps a most Jexperienced observer of Chinese events and.a worthy successor in the jership of the French Mission at Nanking and Peiping,
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