Shanghai, Feb. 27.
It seems to be what persons in an uncivilized country would treat as scrap of paper," said Judge P. Grant Jones in HM. Supreme Court yesterday when referring to a separa-ion agreement between a husband and wife, which was produced for hhis inspection during the hearing of the wife's claim for payment' of maintenance arrears.
Airs. Anna Perry, who filed the Jclaiin, asked for payment for the months of November, December, 1999, and January, 1940, at an agreed rate of $150 a month. The husband, Mr. Herbert Perry, did not appear.
Tt yeas explained to His Lordship that the agreement had been signed Jon March 1, 1938, in the presence of both parties and two Inwyers and that Mr. and Mrs. Perry had added their signatures to it. Asked why. she had signed the agreement, Mrs. Perry stated that she had" been hungry for six months and had sign-fed. it knowing that the paper was against her.
'Addressing Mrs. Perry, who gave her evidence in Russian' through an interpreter, His Lordship stated "This agreement' puts "you absolutely your husband's power. You should bhat have signed it." He advised her
her suit "for ju separation, proceed.as foam possible, wi "On that suit your rights will adjusted between yourself and your husband," he concluded, HIM. Police Court
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