The easy divorce facilities wi have given Riga the title of "Reno lof the North," are finding disfavour the eyes of the French Government, according to a story printed in the Paris morning paper "Lo Matin" to-day.
According Matin," the French Minister drawn the attention of the Latvian Govern-] ment to its anomalous situation granting divorces to such nationals, whi not valid in France." It was suggested this application of the Latvian vil colle might be regarded as an infringement of French sovereignty.
A case in point was quoted as evidence. A young French lawyer had married 'a Dutch woman Dusseldof. while he was attached to the Inter-Allied Commission on Shortly after-
Yond and fruitlsy tried to secure Eventually she travelled to Riga where she was granted a divorce after a month's. residence there. Under French. law, however, the French lawyer is still married to her-—Reuter.
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