After the plaintiff had told his story in the court and Dr. Sarkon On, the Chinese lawyer who had aided Mr. Avshalomoff in obtaining his di-force, had told the court that in the eyes of Chinese law the divorce proceedings involved no irregularities of any kind, Mr. J. B. Sawyer of the American passport office, gave evidence, It was with some difficulty that Mr. Sawyer's knowledge of the case was elicited as he seemed reluctant to give any facts which might more properly be reserved for the State Department in Washington, however, the court did learn that the passport office: was in possession of a somewhat "voluminous" correspondence from Mrs. Avshalomoff. It wa also revealed in court that Mr. Leighton Shields, U.S. Attorney, had received a telegram from federal authorities in America verifying the date of Mrs. Avshalomoff's repatriation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.