Manila, May 14. Naval authorities here said tonight that they understood the "legal "difieulties which caused John Weber, former member of the USS. Panay's crew, to be arrested in Shanghai last week concerned tan alleged debt of only about 20 pesos. Weber is now on his way here aboard the transport Gold Star.
Weber was originally arrested at Cavite, naval officers said, because of his alleged refusal to pay the 20 pesos which a complainant said he owed for the use of a motor car he had rented. It is understood that when the ease came to trial Weber failed to appear and bout that time he moved to Manila. After having been aboard the Panay when it was bombed near Nanking in December, 1937, Weber retired from the Navy. He came to Shanghai last winter—United Press. two cart wheels, several oxen and donkeys and a umber of men. The longest as measured was 40 fi. and several were 18 to in diameter, with one as much og 2 ft.
A coolie in France, learned during the world war a cheap and easy way to burn limestone and he is doing this for the church. He built a small kiln ina bank, made a flue from the roadway up: the stones and the coal are placed in this in alternate layers and when it burns out the time is there and not blacked.
The trains run with great regula and are overcrowded. Many more freight trains are in evidence formerly—some of these for military Purposes, of course.
People hear shooting every night but much of this is by those on guard {o jet people know they" are of the The hospital is adding to its personnel one of the refugee Germia Jews from Shanghai, a This station with over 600 and eighteen or more foreigners has medical practitioner, not even a Chinese one, that has been trained in Western medicine. So he will be heartily welcome.
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