A ROYAL MESALLIANCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3534, 23 July 1920, Page 5

A ROYAL MESALLIANCE.

RUMANIAN CROWN PRINCE

SEPARATION FROM WIFE. TOKIO, July 12. Prince Carlos, the Grown Prince of Rumania, who renounced his position as heir to the throne after marrying Mile. Zizi Lambrini, the daughter of one of his father's subjects, after the defeat of Rumania in the war, is now in Japan on a certain mission. He declined to grant a personal interview regarding his marriage, which the Supreme Court of Rumania has since declarer! invalid, on account of eertain informalities. He referred Press correspondents to Colonel Arion, his personal aide-de-camp, who was formerly Rumanian Minister for Foreign Affairs. . - -.

Colonel Arion said that the separation of-the Prince and his wife was irrevocable, on both sentimental and legal grounds. The Prince had agreed absolutely to this course, making his title as heir flawless. He at first decided that if, judging him as a common citizen, the marriage was legal, he would fulfil his obligations and renounce the throne, but he was latterly convinced of the illegality of the marriage from both a civil and religious viewpoint. He therefore withdrew his renunciation of the heirship.

Regarding an interview credited to his mother. Queen Marie of Rumania, by Router's Agency, in which she alleged that her soil's marriage was the result of a German plot to entangle liivri. the Prince considered that the story was certainly twisted, and he cabled from India to have it corrected.'

The marriage of Prince Carlos, the Crown Prince, of Rumania, who is now 27, with the daughter of a commoner, was a romantic runaway match. Mile. Zizi Lambrini, who is to be a very beautiful girl. captured the Prince's heart during the war. and. nfter the defeat of Rumania,, they were married and" ran away to Odessa. Subsequently the Prince formally renounced his position as heir to .the throne. Efforts were made by his parents, the King and Queen, to induce the Prince to return, but in August last year he wrote to his father refusing to renounce his morganatic bride. Ultimately, he accepted the decision cf the Supreme Court that the marriage was JandV to Court, it having been decided that there was no power under the Rumanian Constitution by which the Crown Prince could renounce his right of succession to the throne.

WEATHER PORECAST. The following is the weather forecast issued to-day:—The indications are for south-easterly winds. Weather prohably cold and changeable with scattered showers. The night wITT probably be very cold with frosts inland. Barometer unsteady.

THE NATJBff AGBEEMENT.

DEBATE IN THE COMMONS,

THIRD READING CARRIED,

LONDON, July 20.

In the House of Commons, on th§ report stage of the Nauru Agreemeal; Bill, the Government made no attempt; to reverse the Standing Committee's decision to- make the ratification, of the agreement subject to Article 22 of the covenant of the League of Nations.j

On the third reading Cdmmandeir Dawes (Coalition Liberal, Southward) declared that the Government ought to have bought the company's shares in the open market. He failed to se© how we were going to get G per cent, on our money. It ought not to go forth that we were profiting largely under the guise of a mandate. Lieutenant Mosly (Coalition Unionist, Harrow) thought the Government had made a bad bargain, although. someone had made a lot of money out of the transaction.

Colonel Wilson, for -the Government;, quoted figures showing that Australia had benefitted by the extent of fourteen'shiliings a ton on phosphates and New Zealand even more.

The Bill was read a third time by 116 to 31.