LADY M.P. ATTACKED

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1920, Page 2

LADY M.P. ATTACKED

ON DIVORCE QUESTION. (By Electric Telegraph—Cop/' ig." LONDQN,. May 5. , Regarding the divorce' question) Ah«' latest issue of “John Bull,” the pafier of Horatio Bottbmley,' cbnfainfi an attack on Rady A-sforj t|ts lady Sf.R., Lfr her advocacy of tightening up instead of loosening the civil law pt divorce. Thp papers refer to Bottomley’s 'attack its a , sensational revelation. His paper hjis been exhibiting posters in Londpn reading: “Lady Ast.or’s Divorce.?’ Bottomloy, in ;ip nftiijle, gives dct|tjh of proceedings in 1903’in, the of Virginia, which divorce was carried through with great secrecy. Tiro poij.it must be home in mind that Lady AN tor is an American, and the proceedings ' referred to relate to a divorce she op- . tained before she married Lord Astor. Bottbmley asserts 'that 'in this suit": the first ground which *5Re alleged whs 1 ' Ifo-v bert Gould 1 Shaw’s desertion of Jipr. ■ Subsequently, he . says, siafufioitV grounds were included ii) tlje petition.' B.ottomley gees on to point' out pirnt in view of this secret divorep, Lidy Astop was ipcpnsistenf, in hgr jeegn't speech in the Douse pf Commons pin the Divorce Bill, in which she deprecated easier divorce on the grpund that women in the United "States had ii«t gjiified anything by if. She had (lie says) added: “I think the ryorld too lopse altogether. We need a tightening rip." Bottomle'y in jiis' firficle describes Lady Astor as “q hypogrite pf (hp first water.”

Bottomloy’s article against Lady Astor added; '‘Though Lady As.tor is described as Mr Shaw’s widow'in ‘Burke’s Peerage,’ and ‘Who’s Who,’ her first husband is still alive in New York.”

The Members of the House of Commons loudly choered Lady Astor on her entering the House to-day. L Mr Bottomley was sitting only a few seats awav from her. ,