The Consular Body gave a dinner on Wednesday night (23rd) at the Shanghai Club in honour of M. Etienne Lardy, Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General for Switzerland, who has been appointed to the post of Swiss Minister to Turkey and Bulgaria and is departing from Shanghai to-day.
The dining room was tastefully decorated, with the Swiss national colours in prominence, and covers Óor over thirty were laid for the international gathering which attended.
Tu toasting the guest of honour, M. N. Aall, the Senior Consul and Consul-General for Norway, referred to the fine and arduous work accomplished by M. Lardy during his six years' stay in Shanghai. He had been Consul-General and Judge of the Swiss Court for China since December 1931, and when the first Swiss Legation in China was established in January, 19, M. Lardy became the Charge d'Affaires He had cordially and actively collaborated in the work of the Shanghai Consular Body, had served as consular representative on the Board of Governors of the General Hospital for four years and as a Judge of the Court of Consuls.
M. Aall paid a warm tribute to the departing Consul-General for his unfailing courtesy and unstinted co-Operation with his colleagues and his valuable assistance in dealtag with the many knotty problems which have confronted that body during his tenure of office in Shanghai. They had liked and esteemed M. Lardy and greatly deplored his departure from Shanghai, although, of course, they rejoiced with him in his promotion.
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