Held Up Twenty-One Days by Shipping Strike After having been delayed in San Franeiico for 21 days, on account of the shipping strike, and having to for 10 another' vessel at Kobe, Leighton Shields, the new District Aulorney for' the United Stales Court for China, arrived in Shanghai on Dee, 20, on board the s. Shanghai Maru, Mr. Shields replaces Mr. Felthan Watson, who returned to America late last September to take his new post as Special Assistant Attorney-General, 'A son of Judge George H. Shields, Mr. Shields was educated at schools in "Washington, following which entered Harvard University Law School to take a three-year course, After completing his training Washington University Law Schoo!, settled down in St. Louis as lawyer. He represented Harvard University at the World's Fair at St.. Louis in 1904. Mr. Shields gave up hhis practice three years ago, on apointment as counsel for the Ro-construction "Finance Corporation, 'The new District Attorney was a member of the President's class Harvard in 1904, and the friendship which he made' with Mr. Roosevelt then has survived to the present day. He and the President still correspond with one another.
Mr. Leighton Shields' father was counsel for the United States in the commission set up to enquire into the claim brought by Chile and Perut against the United States for alleged damages brought about through the World War.
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