Show WAR TROPHIES customs officials refuse to allow their admission duty free pan francisco sept 10 officers of the eighth united states infantry who arrived from the philippines on the transport are at loggerheads logger heads with the local customs officials over the admission duty tree of a of trophies from the far east the articles were intended as a giotto the museum of the united states military academy at west point but they may never reach their destination if the treasury department tries to exact duty from the officers 0 the eighth assistant surveyor of the port st john says he cannot pass the articles without consulting higher authority and here the matter rests principal among the articles contained in the trunks are two religious images and the robes in which they were draped one of these is an ebony figure ot the saviour known n southern luzon as the black christ these images were seized by the eighth infantry iry at the headquarters of a native religious sect in the town of province of laguna while the nent was operating in that district the religious sect known ae the Ca lorum and the images are said to have been used by the insurgent leaders to exact war revenue from the people of the district by imposing on their credulity A filipino ventriloquist it ie said would apparently cause the images to speak and order the natives to give their money so the americans might be driven from the island the carvings appear to have been made within the last two or three years |