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DIFFICULTIES OF A MIXED MARRIAGE.

CHINESE HUSBAND AND SWISS WIFE.

MET IN LUCERNE AND WED IN VIENNA.

DOCTOR WHO OBJECTED TO DANCING.

A Month's Trial.

"She said, 'I will stay with you for one month, if I cannot I will leave you. Before moving there she approved of the house. My bro ther-in-law has a car which she often used-it was at her disposal. She went out very often sometimes alone and sometimes with friends. The man who travelled on the bont came almost every evening to my house. I did not exactly object on ons occasion he asked me to allow my wife to be taken to dinner by him."

Singapore. After a year's RC- Mr. Da Silva then rose to re- quaintance at Lucerne in Switzer

examine Mrs. Voon. Plaintiff, re- land they were happily married in plying to her counsel, said that the Vienna on Christmas Eve of 1025friend referred to in connection "I refused and as a result I had and all went well until they board. with the concert was a lady and not a quarrel with my wife;" continued edu stearae bound East at Mar- a gentleman. On her arrival in Dr. Yoon. The next quarrel was seilles. Her husband objected to Singapore her husband did not show when a Mr. and Mrs. Paulusz in ber dancing with passengers and any reluctance or object to her goingvited my wife out without inviting there were quarrels. They arrived to stay at the Grosvenor Hotel. me and I objected. After the in Singapore in March this year and He did not have a house of his quarrel I told her that if she could own in Singapore at the time but had told her that he was going to live with his sister, brother-in-law and two children." She arrived in Singapore on a Sunday, but her husband did not see her until the following Wednesday as he had gone to Johore.

ale went to live in a hotel for a

few days a she wanted complete reat while her husband went to the house of a relative,

She later joined her husband and had many differences and eventual ly left his house on June 23. Her

husband was not cruel, he did not drink nor gamble, he gave her enough clothing and amusement but their temperaments were different this was why she could not live with him. She was Swiss and her husband Chinese.

Warned Before Marriage. Before leaving Europe" be had told her about the difficulties of a

not get on with me and did not

love me she could go back. She asked me under what conditions she was to go back and I told her that new and that I my practice was would scad ber something every Had he informed you that he had month. I told her that she was to previously a practice in Johore work to supplement my allowance.

Yes.

June you were being advised by During the months of May and your solicitor 7-Yes.

After June 3 certain correspond- ence passed before solicitors -Yes.

There was a talk about your re- turn to Europe.1-Yes.

Was anything said about what was to happen after you had return- mixed marriage out East but shed to Europe 1-He said he wouldn't was prepared for them. She had do anything in the matter. been an orphan for the past 20 years and prior to their marriage her husband had given her 300, 400 and 500 Swiss france a month. He had told her that he was not a rich

Man.

Such was part of the evidence re the District Judge, in the case in corded by Mr. C. H., G. Clarke, which Mrs. Martha Martinet Voon is suing her Chinese husband, Dr. E..C. Yoon, who has established a medical practice in Singapore, for maintenance,

Mr. Claude da Silva appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. N. A. Mallal

for the defendant.

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Replying to counsel, plaintiff said that Dr. Voon made her an offer of returning home in July, the class of passage was not stated and she did not hear of, the cash offer of 2000. Nothing was said to her! about paying her board and lodging or her expenses until her departure. Have you any private source of income-I sold my jewellery.

Is that the jewellery given to you by your husband 1-By Dr. Voon's relatives.

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What about his responsibilities to you as his wife -He said he was willing to support me for one year and nothing more.

Has any offer been made to you to return to your husband A minister came to see me once.

Please leave ministers out of this, madam, solicitors are in it Through solicitors has any offer been made to take you back -No.

The Doctor's Story.

In his evidence Dr, Voon stated that he had his practice at Rochore Road, Singapore. He received his qualification first at Edinburgh and then at Lucerne. He first niet his wife at a sanatorium at Lucerne where he was working. She left her employment three weeks after his arrival there,

"She was not able to find a job," procceded Dr. Voon. her as she was in fact starving and "I helped could not pay her boarding. I paid her sometimes 300, 400 and 500 Swiss francs. This continued for the first or five months Then she found work as clerk at a stationery shop. About a year later we were married, on December 24, 1928. T was then working as an assistant to

Professor at Vienna. "Before our marriage I told her everything about my circumstances. I told her that I was a poor man, Don't think I am rich.' I also told her that when I went back to the East I would start a new practice and that it would be difficult for her for a few months. I further told her that if she was willing to come and share with me she was at liberty to do ao. I also told her

The Final Quarrel. Further questioned, Mrs. Voona said that to final quarrel with her busband took place on June 23 and she left the house the following morning, Her husband threw cigarette tin and ash tray at her because he was in a bad temper that night-he was very angry. He had not been very angry with her on any previous occasions. During his spurts of temper he never threw anything at her previously. gentle husband to you 1-Not very That is to say he has been a very

would be difficult. She said she that a mixed marriage in the Enst

was willing to do my accounts and

kind.

Never offered any physical vio- cock." lence 1-No.

Mr. Mallal: Why did you pay an allowance before your marriage - Is it not a fact, you called at a police station to make a reporting with cold, to buy her warm It was winter time, she was shiever- No.

Did you consult any doctor about the injury you received 1-No, I had no means to pay a doctor.

You slept on the floor in a room adjoining the bed room. Had you. taken your pillows-No, I had cushions."

You told us that on one previous occasion you had a quarrel with your husband and that he refused to allow you to go with a friend of years Yes, he said, if you went but you might as well stay on the

#treets,"

Was this the occasion you wanted to attend a concert-Yes, it was at night after dinner. I told him somebody would come to fetch me at 9 o'clock.

Is it a fact that your husband asked you to accompany him to this

show No.

clothing.

Was she your

mistress î-Not exactly, we used to meet every week but we were not living under the same roof.

Start of the Trouble.

She made no reply.

Road and she was just as dissatis- fied as before. She, would not talk much to me and when I spoke to her was unwilling to reply. I used

5.30 and sometimes till 8 or 9. I to work from & in the morning to

also had occasional night calla from patients. While I was at work she used to go out almost every day- she was never at home.

"After this we shifted to Rochore

Sometimes she took tin and was never seen after that. I asked her where she went and she refused to tell me. She usually returned at about 7 p.m. Once, on June 16, she came back at 10.30 and the next

day I asked her and she said some one had invited her to dinner with a view to giving her work at, a local French bank.""

Looked For a Job.

advertised in the local papers for She also told me that she had work," Dr. Voon went on. She said that after she had found work she would leave me. I told her that I did not like the idea of her working or going out by herself as had my good name to keep but if long as she lived ander me as I she once left my protection I would not be responsible for her. I used to take her occasionally to the cinema; most of the times she re fused to accompany me."

Continuing, Dr. Voon said that' on June 23 she went out at 8 n.m. and returned home at 6.30 p.m. He was outside his dispensary by the side of the wall when she walked asked her where she had been and past him. They had dinner and he

how she had spent the whole day. She told him that she had been to the country with some friends.

He asked her, who they were and she refused to tell him. He then told her that he was sometimes free and could take her out. She re- plied. It is my business, you must

not hak me when went out "or

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Vitana. Herr Edmund Reinhardt,

with hon he also told BY MAIL, WIRE, AND whose death at the age of 52, is

that she would not do so until he told her.

Olgazette Tin Incident. ·

"It ended in a quarrel. I threw

a cigarette tin and ash tray on

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reported from Vienna, для the brother and close associate from the beginning of her career of Professor Max Reinhardt. He supplied the business and administrative talent. which was necessary successfully to complement Max Reinhard't work, and in recent years he also took con trol to some extent of the artistic management of the Reinhardt pro- ductions in Berlin.

L'o'ndon. When Maskolyne's the floor at ber feet but did not aim Theatre reopened visitors found a them at her," Dr. Yoon continued.newly decorated auditorium and "I then told her if she wanted to vestibule. Mr. Jasper Maskelyne stay with me.ahe must behave her painted the auditorium himself in self if not please yourself, the 12 days, while Mr. Noel Maskelyne door is open.' I went into my bed-painted the vestibule. room to put on my coat and she Berlin. Soon after taking off from

Belfast, Messrs. Workman Clark "The trouble first started after followed me and we had hot words, the Templehoferfeld, the air port (1028), Ltd., Belfast, have booked few days in the boat" proceeded She took a writing and and asked of Berlin, a small newspaper acro an order for a passenger and fruit Dr. Yoon. "I allowed her all free-me to write that I drove her from plane lost her propeller in conse-carrying steamer of 4,000 tons from quence of a broken crankshaft. The Messrs. Vaccare Brothers & Co... dom to mix up with the passengers. the house. Then I did not like the way she

"I said it was not true and that aeroplane crashed from a few hun New Orleans, behaved herself so we had quarrels. if she was leaving me she was doing dred feeet on to a moving goods. took exception to her friendship so of her own free will. I threw train, the pilot was killed and the with a couple of persons. Before the pad on the floor; she caught mechanic severely injured. our arrival at Singapore she told hold of my wrists and I wrenched

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London. -Sir Robert Hutchison, chief Liberal Whip,, acting under medical orders, has had to go abroad for his health's sake. Dur ing his absence his duties will be undertaken by Sir William Edge,

Munich. It has been decided to abolish the Baxon Legation in Manich as from the end of next. March.

me that she was going to leave myself free, and went out. I return- Pretoria.-Delville Wood Day was me. She told me that she had been ed at 10 p.m. and found, all the commemorated by religious services an orphan all her life and not used pillows and blankets out of bed. I throughout the Union of South to being controlled by anybody and naked the maid servant who pointed Africa. A most impressive cere- 'I don't want you to control me." outside. I peeped and saw her mony was held at the Union Build- She said that when the Swiss curled up on a couch in the sitting inge, Pretoria, whore, in the pre sence of 5,000 people, Sir Percy Consul came

on board she would room. particular show a few days pre- tell him to take her to a. boarding things and left me. I did not tell her crament a bronze replica of the

house and arrange for her divorce

"Next morning she packed her Fitzpatrick handed over to the Gov.

Ivigtut.-Capt. Ahrenberg, the from me., I said, Think properly to clear off. A Malay corporal No. Delville Wood Memorial,

Swedish airman, who left Stock- before you take such a step, and 230 came with a note and took her Cape Town-Sergt. Eric Douglas, holms on a flight across the Atlantic, she said, I am quite decided." thinge away. He told me that she Royal Australian Air Force, who has left Ivigtut, in Greenland, in When we arrived at Singapore she was with a lady and gentleman it accompanied Flight-Licut. Enton in his aeroplane Sverige for Canada. did not accompany me to my house. the police station making a report. the search for the aeroplane in

Rimouski.An aeroplane met the I handed her belongings to the cor- which Lieut. Keith Anderson and liner Empress of Australia at should put up in the Grosvenor tisement in the papers after seeing April, has been appointed accond Montreal, Toronto, and other points. "A passenger proposed that she poral and later inserted an adver- Mr. Hitchcook lost their lives last Rimouski and took off letters. for Hotel for a few days to give her my lawyer. There was some corres- rest. By mistake I first took her

airman to Sir Douglas Mawson's to the Oriental Hotel and then to offered her a second class, pannage ing Cape Town on October 15.

pondence between the lawyers and I Antarctic expedition, which is leav the Grosvenor Hotel. The arrange but Inter wanted some conditions. ment was that I was to give her complete rest for a few days. came her on Wednesday at the Hotel took her for a drive by appointment, We returned at 7 p.m.

viously and that you refused to company him, sad for the recoma he refused to allow you to accom pany this particular friend to the If the defendant had asked you to come back after June 24 would have gone back and lived with him?

No, I would not. Even though he bad offered to maintain you well-He had sent me away and I had no reason to go back.

In short you have nothing what ever against the defendant except that you could not get on with him? -Yes.

Mental Incompatibility... Only mental incompatibility as they say in America ?

His Honour: This is not America, Mr. Mallal. You cannot get divorce for mental incompatibility bere

Paris Paris Municipal Council has decided to set up an advisory committee to consider the erection. T. Herrick, who, until his death, of a memorial to the late Mr. Myron was the United States Ambassador:

"The conditions were that the Vienna-The Australian Govern- passage money was to be handed ment has introduced a Bill in the over to her together with a year's National Assembly for extending allowance and that she would leave till December 31, 1831, the copy to France, when she liked and not by the first rights of such literary or artistic "In the meantime I was staying available bont as was my condition, works as would expiro before thất'| New Orleans.A large. dynamite at Owen Road with my brother-in-This was the trouble. I got the im- datë, particularly those of the cam- bomb has been discovered in New low. I showed her over my place at pression she did not like to leave poser Johann Strauss, who died on Orleans, placed in such a manner Owen Road; she looked round and Singapore from solicitors corres- June 3, 1809. His works are fre- that its explosion would have wreck- proposed to come the next day. nandence and that she was not to quently performed abroad, and the ed a tin. main through which a The following day I sent a car and be dictated to. A minister was sent royalties constitute a considerable supply of natural gas passes. The she came after making certain con- by me but she refused to come back financial asset, which will thus, be | fuse, however, apparently went out, ditions.

or go back to Europe."

proserved for Austria.

failing to ignite the bomb.