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Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1929, Page 2

MISS FRENCH’S VISA. NEW YORK, Oct. 16. Miss Valerie French, granddaughter of the late Earl of Ypres, came to the United States to visit her fiance, Mr Bradley Martin, junior, without obtaining a passport or visa. She believed that such formalities were unnecessary when travelling between English-speaking countries, but when she arrived in the White Star liner Homeric last evening/she found herself enmeshed by the immigration officials, who ordered her to remain aboard throughout the night and report at Ellis Island to-day for formal examination. Accompanied by her friend Miss Diana Guest, she reported at the detention station and there underwent a brief questioning, which was lightened by her explanaton that it was all a mistake and that the passport was being forwarded from England. llpon her release she seemed much amused by the whole experience. Miss French declined to disclose her plans or to comment on the report that she was to be married in the hospital at Denver where Mr. Martin is recovering from a motor-car accident. All she would say was that site would visit her fiance’s parents in Denver.