1936-12-22 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 22; 1936.

MRS. FREER FIGHTS FOR "MY HONOUR" Practical Gifts

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Determined to Enter Australia to·

Refute "Heartless Adventuress" Charge

Ex-King Edward in Wates.-With him are Slr Kingsley Wood (Minister of Health), and (right) the Minister of Labour, Me. Ernest Brown.

Marrying Judge Turns

Divorce Lawyer

New York, Dec. 20.

JUDGE E. A. FREEMAN, who has married more Hollywood

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.

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,

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sisters of the King, are probably the reason.

I should be allowed to go to Australia to vindicate my name, Egypt. Princesses Fauza and Faten, 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 nie, 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 mother-in-law about this Australian basiness?” she asked.

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

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"So cabled home asking that

she should not be told tinything about the case-not for my sake, but for hers.

"I am in a cluft slick. ·For the He of me I don't know what will come of it all-but

I am going to fight and felt hard."

America May Introduce

New Calendar

Thirteen - Month System Is Recommended to State Department

Washington, Dec. 21,

A reformation of the calendar is

Mrs. Freer told me she had re- being advocated by the central ceived a cable from the father of statistical board, directed by Sec- Lieutenant Duwar, the Australian retarles Henry Morgenthau, officer whose wife she blames for Henry A. Wallace, Daniel C. Roper her exclusion from the Common- und Frances Perkins. Iwealth.

A PRIVATE AFFAIR. "He offered to pay my fare to England by any route, provided that I didn't touch at Melbourne," she explained.

The proposed 'plan is to divide the year into 13 months of 20 days each, the months to begin on Sun- day and end on Saturday regularly. To give longer week-ends, all holi- days would fall on Monday. At the replied thanking him for his end of every year there would be u very kind offer, and asked if he "year day" or extra holiday to make would also be willing to pay my passage

round the world. "I will not go

10 Lahore, as

the right number of days In a year. In leap years a-mid-year extra holl- day would be added.

some people she went on.

The subject of calendar reform This affair has reached a stage first came before the board when it when that is impossible. It is not was asked by the State Department to question of whether I I can or cannot

make a study of the questions involved and to submit 11 report as which could be used in formulating ghe said,

| marry Lieutenan! Dewar.

"I have been described heartless adventuress,

1011

never trose.

"Yet when I was interviewed by the the-policy-of-the-U-S-Government; Immigration officials the question RECOMMENDATIONS DRAWN UP They can apply a dietation test plan for more than a year and now The board has been studying the in any language they like to defent has a definite report to make to the a new arrival.

State Department. The favours the calendar reform.

It recommends:

"They tested me falled and here I am."

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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 re- form.

New York, Déc. 18. Enthusing a sympathetic audience,

WIDESPREAD SUPPORT CITED but leaving critics uncertain, Madome The report cites the "increasing Galli-Curci, her throat freed of the advocacy of calendar reform in this Koitre which had constricted it, country and the "widespread sup- returned to the Chicago opera stage port for a speelal international con

in "La Boheme."

vention to discuss the matier 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.

the

enthusiasm which hailed her operatic Other countries, including Eng- debut in the same elty 20 years ago land, France, Belgium, Germany, in

Mitto."

Japan, Holland, Italy and Spain, Galli-Curci had been are aligning themselves with upset before the performance, but at movement. the conclusion she danced and sang Those in favour of the reform have 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 managers want,

Sunday. Under the present calendar

Some critics, however, felt that this does not occur again until 1950. while the old Galli-Curci had gone a United Press, Jess accomplished artist had taken her place. Mr. Herman Devries, of

her

the Chicago Americans who claims LAST CARTRIDGE

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to have been the first to hail greatness in 1016, wrote: "We can not have been and be for such a great artist 11

haps, more than she suffer, per- |

WILD ELEPHANT

Colombo, Dec. 20.

"..

Mr. Edward Sulinion, of the Dally News, feels:. "She had command-of The last cartridge among a party neither voleo 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 fights by an elephant in the jungle of the the theatre. has ever seen,"

Navvi region. Mr. Edward Barry, of the Tri-D. de S. Jayaratne and G. de Zoyas, Assistant-Government Agent M. hune, belleves: The answer is

of co-operative neither 'yes' nor 'no. It is may be." deput registrar

"She used her

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was much of the old the morning they went to sec magic in the middle register.

the above that she seemed to be feeling in the Navvi plains.

large hards of deer often encountered her way as if she could not believe that the old growth had gone and she was really free at Inst.”

gingerly.

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