TURNED AWAY

Southland Times, Issue 19278, 24 June 1924, Page 5

TURNED AWAY

AMERICA’S IMMIGRATION LAWS. AN AWKWARD SITUATION. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, June 21. The inflexibility of the immigration law was again illustrated, when Lady Theodora Wernher, daughter-in-law of Lady Ludlow, was detained on arrival from Italy with her month-old daughter, who was born in Milan. Lady Wernher, although born in Petrograd, is admissable under the ruling that an alien resident of the United States may return after six months’ absence, but her infant is not admissible, because the Italian quota is exhausted.

Sir Derrick Wernher, who has been a resident of the United States for the past five years, is at present in England, after a five months’ tour of Italy with his wife, who, although ill, returned to the United States with her baby and nurse as first cabin passengers. Lady Wernher attempted to override the official’s declaration, declaring that detention would probably be physically harmful, but while appeal is being made to Washington, the officials declared that the law must be rigorously enforced. All three will be taken to Ellis Island, ostensibly awaiting deportation.