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THE VOON MAINTENANCE CASE.

"FOR EAST IS EAST, AND WEST IS WEST."

TRAGEDY OF AN UNHAPPY MIXED" MARRIAGE.

JUDGE SYMPATHISES WITH CHINESE HUSBAND.

19.-The "I told her that her husband would pay for a second class pas- sage and a monthly allowance. She- refused to go back and said that she had put the case in the bands of a soliciter."

Singapore. September impracticability of inter-marriage between Western and Eastern peoples was.commented upon both by Bench and counsel on Saturday when the case in which Mrs. Voon, a Swiss, sued her Chinese husband for using criminal force and failing to maintain her was concluded with an order for $125 a month being made.

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The parties at variance Mrs. Martha Martinet Voon, and her Chinese husband Dr. K. C. Voon. After passing through the local College of Medicine Dr. Yeon proceeded to Edinburgh where he qualified further before going to Europe.

He worked at a clinic in Lucerne, Switzerland, and here he made the acquaintanes of his wife, who was an orphan employed at the clinic as a typist earning a small salary,

An Unfortunate Voyage.. A year inter Dr, Voon left the clinic at Lucerne and went to Vienna where he was an assistant. to a Professor of tuberenar dis- PARES.

Cross-examined by Mr. da Silva, Mr. Horley said that he spoke to Mrs. Voon in English. She replied in English and spoke so that he could understand her. He had not, dis- cussed figures with Dr. Voen. In his position he thought it was right for him to act as a peacemaker. He was not aware that Dr, Voon was not prepared to maintain her after a year. Be would not sub- scribe to the proposition that a hun- band sends his wife away to Europe and cease to maintain her.

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In your experience is $150 & month too much for boarding and lodging for a European lady in Singapore Yes, reasonable Singapore but under that in Europe, What would you consider reason. able for transport, laundry and an occasional dress -About $20.

Temperamental Differences.

The Swiss typist followed

In his address Mr. "Mallal charac- him to Vienna and they were mar-térised the case as an unfortunate ried on Chrsitmas Eve, 1928.

one which a Western lady married Early this year they planned to an. Eastern gentleman. Two people Bettler down in Singapore and prior of different natures had undertaken to their departure the husband told to live together, as it happened in his wife of his financial position and this case, with disastrous results. the difficulty of mixed marriages. The plaintiff considered herself the She appeared to realise the situaį martyr, while the defendant thought tion and was agreeable to share the he was the martyr. There was little life with her husband.

difference in the facts as disclosed by both partics. They married in Switzerland and thought, they would live happily ever after.

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All went well until they boarded a vessel bound East -át Marseilles. The husband raised objections to his wife's behaviour and dancing His Honour: The question is with certain passengers" on board whether he expected her to adopt There were quarrels and the wife Chinese customs; but she would had said that she had been annot. I am not blaming him at all. orphan all her life and not used to being controlled by anybody. would brook no interference even from her husband.

The trouble started On the She steamer, continued Mr. Mallal. The plaintiff had not much experience of things and there was a lot of firtation on board. Some gentle- man, who belonged to that class of people who make a speciality of understanding misunderstood wives, came on the scene and exused the trouble. Counsel aubmitted "that, the wife had no intention of making the married life happy and that she should have tried to carry out the contract.

They arrived in Singapore in March this year and Dr. Voon went to live with relatives. His wife stayed the first few days in Singa- pore at the Grosvenor Hotel as she wanted complete rent. During these few days a fellow passenger on the ship who also disembarked at this port dined with her on one ocen sion,

Eventually, she agreed to live with her husband on the condition that she would give it a month's trin. failing which, she would leave him. A motor car was placed at her disposal,

The fellow passenger continued his visits and one evening he naked the doctor for permission to take bia wife out to dinner and the doctor refused. There was a quar- rel between husband and wife over this,

The defendant supplied" all the needs of his wife but would not give all that she wanted. He had tried his best but that did not come up to her expectations. Refore she left her husband's protectation she had consulted her solicitor." The doctor had tried his best to get her to return to him but without

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All negotiations broke down be- cause she did not want to he dietat-1 ed to. It was just a question of ineorapatability of temperaments and it. had not been found that she was entitled to maintenance.

His Honour's Sympathies.

Dr. and Mrs. Voor went to live in a flat.above the diapensary. His wife went out alone during the day returning only between 8 and 7 at night. She would not tell him where she went or with whom. On the that the real issue was a question In his reply, Mr. da Silva stated night of June 23 Inst, she came home at 10 o'clock and there was of facts-which of the parties had yet another quarrel. The wife told the truth about the incidents alleged that her husband was angry on the night of the final quarrel. and throwing a cigarette tin and In the whole of the correspondence ash tray at her ordered her to pack there was not a single suggestion up and go. She left the following that the defendant wanted his wife morning and went to live in a board. back, or a suggestion of unfaithfulį ing house.

conduct. The teters showed the She agreed that her husband did mentality of the man who by his not drink, gamble, nor was he education should have a broader cruel, he gave her enough clothing mind. When friends visited his and amusement but she was not house he gave them no opportunity happy as their temperament were

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His Honour: He did not object to their visita but only to them in- viting his wife only, not unreason- ably so.

Regarding the question of cruelty Mr. dn Silva referred to the well- known case of Kelly . Kelly.

A Padre's Advice. Further evidence was recorded by Mr. C. H. G. Clarke, the District Judge, when a Chinese maid ser vant and a minister told their story,

Describing the quarrel on

"Did he turn her out of his pro- night of June 23, the maid servant tection was the real issue? Ho said that she was standing on thy goos out on the night of the final verandah at the time. She went th quarrel and comes back and locks and asked them why they werd himself in the bedroom. This i quarrelling. The doctor was angry woman is absolutely friendless in because his wife went out and came this country and the attitude of back late. She saw the doctor the defendant was that, she find a throwing a cigarette tin on the floor protector some day and he would near the feet of his wife.

ደነ to the Supreme Court. A Rev. W. E. Horley, of the divorce petition was filed only a Methodist Mission, stated that he day before the present case started knew Dr. Voop, who had been here." student in his school for about eight years. Dr. Yoon approached him about his matrimonial difficul- ties and asked for advice: Dr. Voon requested bim to try and get his wife to come and live with him again or take a second clans passage to Europe.

"What is a fair figure for this professional man to pay his wife to maintain her in reasonable com- fort," asked, counsel who then sub- mitted that it should be at least $200 a $250 a month.

Hin Honour remarked that it was a very unfortunate case of the hope-

"I went and saw the young lady lessness of a marriage between 'East at a boarding house and asked her and West. All bis sympathies were why she had quarrelled and why not with the lady. By making an she had left him," proceeded the order he did not want the defend. Rev. Mr. Horley. "She said she ant to get into debt in consequence. left him because he was unkind to He made an order for 8125 a month her-not given her liberty and allow with liberty to apply for revision by ed to do as she wanted. I told her either party. that it was her duty to return to "I can imagine that she was very him and forgive him. She said 'I trying, but the trouble was due to will never never return. I sug the difference in their upbringing. gested that she should return to It is not to be expected that a Swiss Switzerland . Singapore was a lady can understand the point of dangerous place for an unprotected view of a Chinese gentleman," His European femala.

Honour remarked.

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