The Archive · 1938

Legal Proceedings Opened

London, June 23.

Countess von Haugwitz-Reventlow has started legal proceedings against her husband apparently in the form of a summons to court instead of a warrant for his arrest, it was persistently. reported here today.

Some quarters said that the Countess was resorting to drastic It was understood that the parents dispute the custody of their son.

American banking circles in Paris, however, said the dispute partially involves differences between the Count and his wife's father regarding the American investments of the Woolworth heires: The Count, it was reported, desires to have them invested in England and the Continent.

Reports that an attempt to kidnap the youthful heir to the former Barbara Hutton's fortune was feared were based on visits of the Countess to Scotland Yard and the Bow Street Police Court. Her attorney admitted that "certain precautions" had been igken.—United Press, Cholera Inoculation Enforcement Although as from today, cholera Certificates are necessary in districts north of Soochow Creek under Japanese control, the authorities, in view of traffic demands, will not ask people crossing the Garden Bridge to show them, but, according to the navy spokesman at yesterday's press conference, a demand may be made at undesignated points in Hongkew, Wayside and Yangtszepoo. Meanwhile "injection squads" wil operate in these areas, from today, inoculating those who fail to produce the necessary document,

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