Australian Who Married In Japan Held In Gaol
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A young Australian, a veteran of the New Guinea campaign, who was sent back to Australia for discharge and three times eluded the civil authorities by escaping to Japan, arrived in the troopship, Westralia, from Japan today and is being held in gaol until the ship resumes her voyage to Australia. The man is Frank Lloyd Weaver, who wants to return to his Japanese wife, whom he married in a Shinto temple. After his last return by air to Japan he eluded the military police and during a wide search shots were fired.
Weaver’s wife, who is living in Kure with her two young sisters, is said to have a large sum of money in Japanese yen and foreign currency. ______________
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1948, Page 4
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