MIXED MARRIAGES.

Shannon News, 21 December 1926, Page 3

MIXED MARRIAGES.

ENGLISHWOMAN’S STORY. DOCUMENT AND £2OOO EXPLAIN- , ED. An Englishwoman who married a Japanese and whose sister married a Chinese, appeared in the Divorce Court, -London, to pursue a petition against her husband and to explain how she came to accept £IOOO on the understanding that she should bring a divorce suit and to consent.to receive another £IOOO when it wias all over. She was Mrs. Elizabeth Pauline Ishiwa.ra, of Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, and her husband, Tarayosh Ishiwara, is a student in motor engineering. Dr. Chew and Mrs. Chew (her sister) were in 1922 managing a Chinese restaurant in Oxford Street, London, and Miss Gibson, as she. was then, assisted them. Slie met the Japanese student at the and after several proposals' on bis part she accepted him. The wedding, took place in February, 1923, at the register office, Paddington, and it was without issue. ■Within a month of the marriage he suggested they should move to an hotel in Edgeware Road, London, and he told her to go on in advance, promising to follow later. “My husband, from that day to this,” said the wife, “has never been back to me, and I have never bad a penny piece from him.” The Document. She returned to her sister’s restaurant and helped her, also doing a little film work to eke out a living. In 1925 she .went with her sister to Shanghai in an endeavour to trace her husband, but failed. , ' Though of limited means himself, the husband was related to members of a wealthy Japanese business firm having branches . all /'over the East, and they were approached. Acting on the advice of a Japanese lawyer whom she consulted, Mrs. Ishiwara signed a document, which opened:— In consideration of the sum of £IOOO sterling now paid to me by the r— — company, and the further sum of £IOQO. sterling to be paid to me by the company in London so soon as the decree nisi shall be granted in the Divorce Division of the High Court against my husband, I hereby release and discharge my said husband and the family in Japan from all claims whatsoever. She agreed to return to England and to institute proceedings as soon as she arrived in London and to pay costs incurred. This contract she signed. v “It received the £IOOO and I returned to*England, ” added the wife, “and instructed my solicitors.” She explained that she was without .means when she went to Japan, and it was argued for r her that her husband’s relatives had a right to provide her with money for a divorce and to secure provision for her afterwards. The husband had no part in the transaction and the divorce proceedings were genuine. The divorce judge, in granting the decree, held that nothing improper had been disclosed.