At the ministry of justice, the suggestion that Paris is becoming a second Reno for American divorces is not well received. M. Leraeerleux, first assistant to Minister of Justice Barthou, said that France was a liberal country regarding divorces, having been the first continental country to grant them to foreigners, under the law of 1884, and that possibly Paris was being visited for this purpose. Just as Flume was such a resort for Italians because of the lack of a divorce law in Italy.
M. Wells, director of civil affairs at the ministry of Justice, said he did not think it logical that France should be looked upon in the United States as a country where divorces could be easily obtained, since there were fewer legal grounds for divorce here than in America.
Generally speaking, France grants divorces to foreigners if their own divorces to foreigners if their own countries permit divorces. Judges during the last few years have been taking a more lenient view toward applications for divorce by foreigners. Previously, the applicants usually were notified that they should apply for divorces in their own country.
Ten-Year-Old Wound Is Fatal.
Camden, N.J.—After carrying a bullet in his brain ten years, Cateldo De Benedicto, twenty-seven, died at the Cooper hospital after it had been removed. De Benedicto, who was an Italian soldier in the war with Turkey over Tripoli, was struck twice in the head. One bullet was removed and he was thought to have recovered.
Bea Stings Motorist on Hand. 