Gen. Liu Wenstao, Ambassador to aly, was reported to have informed the' Chinese Government on the negotiations with the Italian Government regarding the attack on the Isis Theatre in Shanghai, but no definite result was said to have been obtained.
Gen. Liu was recently instructed by Nanking to open negotiations for of the incident did. everything "in their' power to make the parly one of the most brilliant and successful that hae ever Leen given here.
The occasion was taken to make it 2 double event "of the birthday, of the Emperor of Germany, and. the house-warming of the new buildings," and "dancing went on merrily to the strains of a small orchestra of strings selected from the Town Band, led by Chev. Vela at the piano."
The cost of the new premises amounted to Shanghai Taels 56,00, trid it should be home in mind that the tael in those days equalled four shillings or more. Many changes have taken place in the building since that gay house-warming. In 1001, the main entrance wag closed In Whangpoo Toad, and another was opened on Astor Road, as it is to-@ay. 'Two years later, when office Accommodation proved to. be too small owing to the larger stof need-fed to handle the business of the Con-Sulate, another storey was' added to the main building Second Link Gone This Is the second German link with] the Shanghai of the past to fall. victim to progress. Within sight the present German Consulate-General, a tall building which, even though not completed, is as high as the Cathay Hotel tower, has risen almost overnight on the''site of the German Club Concordia, the social centre of Shanghai in the early part fof the present "century. The Club] Concordia was closed during the early part of the Great War, and then for W.-C. Herald" Photo.
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