EAST MARRIES WEST.
UNION NOT A SUCCESS. ACTRESS SEEKS DIVORCE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright Received Feb. 11, 7.55 p.m. Melbourne, Feb. 11. Mrs. Chia, formerly Miss Unie Run sell, a prominent Melbourne society actress, is suing for divorce on the grounds of desertion. ■ In she married Thomas Ctyia, secretary to the Chinese Consul-General for Australia, and shortly after, as the result of a dispute, Chia shot and wounded the Consul-General, and received a sentence of five years’ hard labor.Petitioner has not seen her husband in 1917 he wrote from Canton Stating that he was a citizen of the Chinese Empire, and as the marriage was not legalised, by the Chinese Consulate in Melbourne it was not valid in Ching,. When the papers were served on Chia in America he declared that he had no intention of living with his wife again, and he realised that the marriage between the East and the West was not a success.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1921, Page 5
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160EAST MARRIES WEST. Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1921, Page 5
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