VALOR BARS DIVORCE

Evening Star, Issue 17923, 20 March 1922, Page 3

VALOR BARS DIVORCE

French divorce cases usually begin with what is legally called "constation do flagrant delit" ; that is, the husband or the wife, when certain of the facts, asks the police magistrate, solemnly attired in top hat, morning coat, and tri-color sash to draw up a summons against the guilty party who has been caught in the act of misconduct.

J.iut .an unfortunate captain of a crack French rifle regiment has now found to his cost that because he was very gallant during the war, .and because he was six times decorated, lie cannot get a divorce from his fickle wife.

In, the ordinary way he heard that his wife was in the habit of spending weekends at a small country hotel with a young air officer. With tho police commissary and tho usual posse of officers, the indignant husband early one morning burst into the hotel bedroom and found his wife and the airman in a compromising situation. All was ready for the summons for misconduct to be drawn up, when the police magistrate heard that the captain had been decorated for bravery. "I am sorry, captain," ho said. " I can do nothing." "AVhy?" queried tho angry husband. " Because the law has extended a special amnesty for minor offences to all soldiers decorated for bravery. This annesty also extends to their wives. Misconduct is one of these minor offences."