Peter Grain heard a divorce action wwolving the status of a British subject who married a Russian git] in the Greek Orthodox Church in China, The case was that of Henry Crawshaw v. Ludmila Konstantjinovna Crawshaw and the ground on which the action was brought] was adultery, Mr. ¥. K, Mok, a Chinese bar-ister, appeared for the petitioner while respondent was not represented.
Petitioner said that he was stationed at Manchouli in China on the border between Russia and 'China during 1921 and married respondent in a Russian Church because the nearest British Consulate was at Harbin, 500 miles away. A certificate of marriage from the priest who performed the ceremony' was given and was presented in Court.
On coming back from Manchouli with his wife the British authorities refused to grant his wife " passport until they were married in a British Consulate or ina church, In the meantime petitioner had sought divorce and received one in Harbin from the committee of the Greek' Church on March 24, 1925, The case had been undefended, the respondent admitting adultery. A copy. for this decree was also put in evidence.
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