Shanghai, May 1.
Mr, Clarence E. Gauss, United States Consul-General, was guest of honour at a reception held in the Columbia. Country Club yesterday' noon, when a very large section of the focal American community. attended in order to show Its appre: lation of the great services rendered to all Americans Ju Shanghai during the trying period through which it thas passed. Mr. Gauss is proceeding te the Talied Slates on home leave.
The occasion was also taken for many local Americans to meet Mr. Frank P, Lockhart, formerly Counsellor"of the American Embassy in China, "who will be acting as U.S. Consul-General in Shanghai during the absence of Mr. Gauss, 'The reception was an informal one for both ladies and gentlemen and, in addition to local Americans, a large umber of representatives' of the diplomatic body, consular corps andi the various armies and navies now present in Shanghai attended, Among those invited to attend the reception yesterday were Admiral 4H. E. Yarnell, Commander-in-Chief of the US, Asiatic Fleet; Colonel Chas. FB. Price, in command of the Fourth US. Marines; Mr. Cornell S. Franklin, chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council; Mr. W. H. Plant; Mtr. Frank Hawks Pott; Dr. J. MeCracken; and many others.
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