FIGHT FOR CHILD.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19901, 2 June 1936, Page 7

FIGHT FOR CHILD.

’ FILM sun nun Husuun. l __. ‘ l’t'llfll YEARS LEGAL BATTLE. _\t\'_\' HARDING SAILS Fol] ENGLAND. United Press Assn—Elev. TI-l. Copyright. QUEBEC. June 1. A {our years' legal battle between Mr Harry Hannistvr and his divorced wife, Ann Harding, lllm star, {or the custody of their daughter Jane, aged seven, took a spectacular turn yester—day when Mr Bannister rushed by aeroplane from New York to Quebec to attempt to prevent the actress from sailing with the child in the Empress of Australia to-morrow for England. The California Courts allowed each parent six months‘ custody of the child, but Mr Bannister claimed that his former wife might establish her residence in England, where she is soing to make a picture. and there would be no legal means or forcing her to return the child. The wife claimed that she had no intention of remaining permanently in England. She said she would return with the child within six months. She ‘checkmeted any legal moves Mr Bannister might take in Quebec by secretly sailing late yesterday in the DucheSs‘ of Atholl. For a time Mr Bannister refused to believe his divorced \vii'e actually had evaded him and insisted upon Searching the Empress of Australia from stem to stern. \\‘hen ilnully convinced that his daughter had gone he swore to a formal charge of kidnapping against his former wife and a warrant for her arrest was isfillt‘il which will he forwarded to England by the Empress of Australia. it is expected that the Court hearing \\ill be held at Southampton.