VIENNA BORDER MOCK MARRIAGES
AWARD FINAL, SAYS BERLIN
Berlin, To-day.
SCANDAL New Police Drive Planned
SPECIAL SCOTLAND YARD SQUAD
In view of a wish expressed by Hungarian and Slovak quarters Scotland Yard has started a new drive against marriages of con- that the existing frontier be-
venience, whereby alien women-ob tween the two countries should be
tain British nationality by marrying revised, it is stressed in German
British nationality by marrying Bri- political circles that the decision tish men, who are usually unemploy. taken at the Vienna conference by the German and Italian Fored and glad to take a handsome fee for their wives immediately after eign Ministers must be regarded the ceremony.
as final and definite.
After being quiescent for a few The "Deutsche Diplomatisch Po-years, the scandal, following an or- litische Korrespondenz" writes that ganised drive against a secret marį both Germany and Italy expect the riage bureau which operated under decision taken will, in practice, the guise of a West End estate fulfil the desired purpose.
agency, has assumed alarming pro- portions-again,
.
The aim pursued was, on the
An entirely new squad has been one hand, to satisfy the require-formed at 'Scotland Yard to carry ments of ethnical justice and, on out a thorough investigation and the other, to substitute peaceful "clean-up", the whole question of neighbourly relations for a danger-mock marriages. ous conflict.
All the "Yard's" linguists have The semi-official organ goes on
been appointed to the squad, which will concern to say that what has been accom-
itself with general plished should not be
alien problems which have perturb forgotten either in Hungary or in Slovakia, ed the Chief Commissioner of the and that if friction should arise Metropolitan Police greatly because every effort ought to be made to of the large number of suppress it in a mutual spirit of Europeans who are being allowed to enter Great Britain at the present time, owing to the unsettled state in certain Continental.
conciliation.
The "Korrespondenz” adds that a certain dissatisfaction prevailing on both sides is in itself the best proof of the impartiality of the ar- bitrators who settled the dispute. -Trans-Ocean.
NEW ITALIAN AIR MAIL LINE
Rome, To-day.
A new air mail service between Italy and South America is to be opened during the second half of January.
SET UP IN FLATS
Central
Most of the women concerned in these marriages of convenience came from France, were introduced to their "husbands" by the organi- sation, which then set them up in flats in the West End of London
A number of prosecutions of the women under the Aliens Act and a long term of imprisonment given to one of the men behind the scan- dal resulted in the organisation, moving its head-quarters over the Channel.
Instead of the women coming over here to marry Englishmen, the "bride-grooms" have been taken to A squadron flight by the machines France for the ceremony and after a to be used on the route will pro-reasonable lapse of time have bably be undertaken at the begin- ning of March.
The first trip will be made by an air force pilot, Colonel Biseo. - Trans-Ocean.
NEGOTIATIONS POSTPONED
brought their "brides" back.
That is one aspect of the activi- ties of the new squad at the "Yard." The other is the question of Ger- man women refugees who, because of the political situation in their own country, have fled to friends in England.
Because their permit from the Home Office allows them to stay here only a very short time the wo- men endeavour to obtain British na- tionality by a similar marriage of
convenience.
£35 TO MARRY In a case which was heard recent- ly at the Old Bailey it was stated that an unemployed tunneller was a suit. for paid £35 and given
Tokyo, To-day. Negotiations between Japan and the Soviet for renewal of the fisheries Convention will be re- sumed next year, a semi-official Japanese news agency reports.
The report adds that it is hoped that before the beginning of the "marrying" a German Jewess in or- new fishing season a modus vivendi He was sent to prison for four der to give her British nationality.
will be found safeguarding Japan-
months for bigamy. ese fishing rights in the Bering, Okhotsk and, Japan Seas.--Trans- Ocean.
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U.S. FLEET OFF TO ATLANTIC
New York, To-day. The American Pacific Fleet be- gan yesterday leaving the Californ ian harbour of San Diego and the Bay of San Pedro for manoeuvres in Atlantic waters, expected to last from January till June.
The first to leave were the au- xiliary ships and the smaller units. Further men-of-war will leave in the next few days through the The battleships Panama Canal. will leave in the middle of next week.-Trans-Ocean.
NEW EMBASSY
in
Athens, To-day. A friends of his who gave evi- The Rumanian Legation dence said that he had been ap- Athens has been raised to the Trans- proached to marry another woman status of an Embassy. jand subsequently spoke of an or- Ocean.
LIMA CONFERENCE ganisation in Bloomsbury where
CRITICISM
New York, To-day.
The satisfaction shown in Wash- ington with the results of the Lima cónferénce is not wholly shared by | the American press..
such marriages-are arranged. ·
SPAAK IN PARIS
Paris, To-day.
The Belgian Premier; M. Spaak, The "New York. Post" states arrived yesterday in Paris on what that the Lima Conference resolu- is officially described as private tions may mean nothing because visit.
many of them may be rejected by! According to well informed cir- the South American Governments. cles he will meet the French Pre-
Trans-Ocean.
Imler, M. Daladier.-Trans-Ocean.
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