The Land Commission of the Shanghai Municipal Council sat on April 16 to hear a claim against the Council submitted by Messrs, Rodger Ca, on behalf of the Zung Chang Clock and Watch Shop, 121 Nanking Road, and the Tien Fai Ziang Pur Shop, 134 Honan Road, two tenants of premises situated on Cadastral Lot 160" (corner of Nanking and Honan Roads) part of which is to be utilized for road-widening. The Land Commission had already awarded the registered owner of Lot 160 (its, Liza Barden) $337,720 for the area of mow 1208 scheduled for widening the two roads. After heat ing the case for the petitioners, the Commissioners have decided that the award of February 23, 1935, must stand and that petitioners are not entitled to any compensation from the Council, from Amoy. HMS.' Berwick and H.MS. Calcutta left on Friday for Tsingtao and Hongkong respectively.
Mr, Paul Scheel, the new Danish Consitl-General and Consular Judge for China, is expected to arrive here to take up his duties in September.
succeeds the late Mr, Ove Lunn, who died suddenly on March 17 last, while in Copenhagen on leave.
Mr. Scheel, who is 45 years of age, at present attached to the Danish Legation in London as Counsellor and First Secretary, a post he has filled since September, 1952, He was recently married, in London, to Miss Anna Britto Vieweg, of Grasber Sweden, who will accompany him China.
A long and distinguished career in the Danish Government Service precedes Mr. Scheel's appointment' to Shanghai
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