_In the U.S. Court for China last Friday before the Hon, C. Lobingier, judge, the action was resumed in which Mr. A. T. Steele is suing the American Trading Ca. to recover the sum of $32,075.36 on an alleged breach of agreement of employment.
Mr. Fessenden appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. R. T. Bryan for the defendant.
After a lengthy hearing oceupying both the morning and afternoon sessions and in which both Mr. Steele and Mr. W. A. Burns, representing the American Trading Ca., underwent examination, the -hearing was adjourned and the case will be submitted on briefs on February, Mason Hugh Martin,.s.0, rrc., is expected to return to Shanghai within the next two or three weeks. He was with the first contingent to leave Shanghai for the front, and prior to demobilization was with the Army of Occupa-ion.
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