1936-12-22 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22,

1936.

MRS. FREER FIGHTS FOR "MY HONOUR

A TOUR THAT MAY HAVE MEANT A LOT

Determined to Enter Australia to Refute "Heartless Adventuress" Charge

Ex-King Edward in Wuten--With him are Sir Kingsley Wood (Minister of Health), and (right) the Minister of Labour, Mr. Einest Brown.

Marrying Judge Turns

Divorce Lawyer ·

New York, Dec. 20.

Bitter Outcry Against

Her Accusers

By A Special Representative

Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 20.

Mrs. M. M. Freer, wife of an Indian Army officer who had been refused admission to Australia, in a mood of ice- cold fury to-day gave me the first interview since she arrived here.

In a statement in the Australian Parliament, Mr. Paterson, the Minister of the Interior, declared that an Australian Army officer attached to the Indian Army "had become entangled with Mrs. Freer" whom he described as "a heartless adventuress."

"This Horrid Business"

"I want to be left to fight for my honour, my name. Surely, I should be allowed to go to Australia to vindicate my name, a woman's most cherished possession," she said.

"Up to now I have declined to discuss this horrid business. But now that they have started to drag my husband, my children, and other relations into this affair I am going to have a lot to say

I have Irish blood in me, you know."

"I'm In A Cleft Stick"

She walked about her room, her eyes flashing with suppress~ | ed fury. "Why-oh, why, should they tell my dear, sweet old

JUDGE E. A. FREEMAN, who has married more Hollywood mother-in-law about this Australian business?" she asked.

film stars than he can count, is retiring from the marriage business in the film city's Gretna Green-Yuma, Arizona-on January, 1.

He has decided that, having earned his fees for marrying film folk, he will now earn fees for divorcing them. HE IS BECOM- ING A DIVORCE LAWYER.

"She is my dearest friend on heard a wrong version of this affair earth, has always been a mother it might cause a relapse. to me, has had the most impllelt faith in me.

"She is 76 years old and it, and when all this misunderstanding and trouble arose I feared that if she

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PLAITS FOR PRINCESSES

Long plaits are still fashionable in Egypt." Princesses Fauza and Faizu, sisters of the King, are probably the reason.

America May Introduce

New Calendar

Thirteen - Month System Is Recommended to State Department

Washington, Dec, 21.

A reformation of the calendar is

"I am in cleft stick. For the life of me I don't know what will come of all-but 1, am going to Right and fight hard." Mrs. Freer told me she had re- being advocated by the central ceived a cable from the father of statistleal bourd, directed by Sec- Lieutenant Dewar, the Australian retarins Henry Margenthau, Jr., offlcer whose wife she blames for Henry A. Wallace, Daniel C. Roper her exclusion from the Common- and Frances Perkins, wealth.

The proposed plan is to

divide A PRIVATE AFFAIR

the year into 13 months of 28 days. "He offered to pay my fure to each, the months to begin on Sun- England by any route, provided that day and end on Saturfay regularly. I didn't touch at Melbourne," she To give longer week-ends, all holl- explained.

days would fall on Monday. At the

"I replied thanking him for his end of every year there would be a very kind offer and asked if he "year day" or extra holiday to make would also be willing to pay my the right mumber of days in a year. passage round the world.

In leap years a mid-year extra holl- day would be added.

"I will not go back to Lahore, as some people suggest," she went on. "This affair has reached a stage when that is impossible. It is not a question of whether I

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The subject of entendar reform first came before the board when it was asked by the State Department to make n study of the questions involved and to submit E

report

"I have been described as a which could be used in formulating heartless adventuress," she said, the policy of the U. S. Government- "Yet when I was interviewed by the] immigration ofcials the question RECOMMENDATIONS DRAWN UP never arose.

The board has been studying the They can apply a dictation test plan for more than a year and now in any language they like to defeat has a definite report to make to the a new arrival.

They tested me falted-and here I am."

in

Italian.

Galli-Curci Back In Opera

State Department. The favours the calendar reform.

It recommends:

report

I-That the United States send representatives to any meeting called by the League of Nations on the sub- ject.

2-That the United States support proposals for the calling of an inter- national convention on calendar r0- form.

New York, Dec. 18. Enthusing a sympathetic audience, WIDESPREAD SUPPORT CITED but leaving crities uncertain, Madame 'The report cites the increasing Galli-Curel, her throat freed of the advocacy of calendar reform in this goltre which had constricted it, country and the widespread sup- returned to the Chicago opera stage port for a special international con- es Mimi in

vention Boheme.

to * "La

discuss tho matter She received five curtain calls at thoroughly." It explains that the the end of the first act, and more at idea is viewed sympathetically by the conclusion of the opera, but they business interests and agencies of were

moved by friendship and the Federal government dealing with sympathy more than by the wild statistics.. enthusiasm which hailed her operalic Other countries, including Eng- debut

in the same city 20 years ago linan, Holland, Italy and Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, in "Rigoletto."

Japan, Madame Galli-Curci had been are aligning themselves with upset before the performance, but at movement. the conclusion she danced and sang and pronounced herself "ready to go suggested that the new calendar be- to any place and do anything" her gin on Jan. 1, 1939, which falls on | mariagers want.

Sunday. Under the present calendar Some critics, however, felt that this does not occur again until 1950,

the.

Those in favour of the reform have

while the old Galli-Curei had gone a

a-United Press.

less accomplished artist had taken her place. Mr.. Herman Devries, of

the Chicago American, who claims LAST CARTRIDGE to have been the first to hall her greatness in 1016, wrote: "We can

not have been and be--for such a great artist it is sad. I suffer, per- haps, more than

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'the theatre “has 'ever "scen.”

Mr. Edword

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Colombo, Dec. 20. The last cartridge among a party

| News, feels; "She had command of

neither volce nor breath. Panic seiz- of six government officials in Ceylon ed her and for three hours, the public saved them when they were charged watched one of the pluckiest Aghis an elephant in the jungle of the

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It is may be."societies, had gone to the district ry of co-operativé no.it Ho sald: "She used bar voice with friends to transact business. In gingerly. There was much of the old the morning they went to see the magic in the middle register but large herds of deer aften encountered. above that she seemed to be feeling in the Navvi plains.

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Going along a narrow Jungle track, that the old growth had gone and cho they turned a bend only half a mile was really free at Inst."

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Berlin, Dec. 15,'

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