SPIES AND MARRIAGE

Evening Star, Issue 16079, 3 April 1916, Page 8

SPIES AND MARRIAGE

In French law, which, of course, is in his retpect similar »to the law of everv country, a foreign woman marrying hj, Frenchman becomes French. But \w time demands different, measures, and a Bih is kid before Parliament allowing marriages between foreien women and Frenchmen only after leave has been obtained from the French Minister of Jusbice, and revoking -certain marriages of tire kind previouely contracted. Tfcs need to? this measure appears obvious when 3x?mples hke the following are considered Last August a Geimnn woman of conKCierable means married a shoeblack living i'ia Pans slum, and in exchange for thepinifcge of bearing his name made him a allowance for Fife. The woman has v <;e come to live in Paris as a French Bi.i >.ct. Another female ertsmv subject, this time.a rich Hungarian woman of 35, has just married a stonemason of 74, a. laborer, who 'cannot even read or wTite. The purpose of such a marriage is obvious. The woman Jived in Pari? beiore the war, and, according to the police report, pro- C poses to settle in Paris again "for spying < purposes." j