After five years in Shanghai, Mr. M. G. I. Melchior, Vice-Consul for Denmark and acting Consul-General for periods totalling a year and a half, will leave China, with Mrs. Melchior and: their infant' son, on January 27 bound"for-Home. Mr. Melchior; after a holiday in Denmark, will go to Brussels, where he has been appointed Secreta: Danish Legation. Both Mr. and Melchior have been active in social life here in the last and, both have been keen riders, hay participated in numa: ous paper and other events.
Forty "lead members of the Danish community attended a luncheon at the Shanghai Club on Tuesday, at which Mr. Melchior was the guest of honour. Mr. J. E. Rainals, acting Chairman of the Danish Association, presided and spoke on behalf of the' membership. Mr. Melchior responded, and other speakers were Mr. Oscar de Oxholm, Danish Minis: ter, and Mr. Paul Scheel, Danish Consul-General. A cablegram from Kobe, from Mr. H. S. Poulsen, Chairman of the Association, was received and read.
Previously a cocktail party had been given at the "Grand Danois" Bubtling Well Road, at which -a silver cigar-box, inscribed with the names of sixty members of the Danish community, was presented to the departing official.
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