MARRIED A CHINAMAN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 February 1921, Page 7

MARRIED A CHINAMAN

ACTION FOR DIVORCE BY SOCIETY ACTRESS.

R¥ CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGH? - (Aus.-N,Z. Cable Assn.) ,

MELBOURNE,, Feb. 11

Mrs Chia, formerly Miss Uhie Russell, a prominent Melbourne society actress, is suing for divorce on the grounds of desertion. ' In 1913 she married Thomas Chia, secretary to the Chinese Consul-General for and shortly after, as the result of a dispute, Chia shot and wounded the Consul-General, and received a sen-* tence of five years' hard labour. " Petitioner has not seen her husband | since, but in 1917 he wrote irom Canton stating that he was a citizen of the Chinese Empire, and as the marriage was not legalised by the Chinese Consulate in Melbourne it was not valid in China. When the papers were served on Chia in America he declared that'he , had no intention of living with his wife again, an<j he realised that the marriage "between the East and the West was not a success.;