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Show DOUBT THROWN UPON EX-SENATOR'S DIVORCE; DECREE GIVEN I IN BULGARIA HELD INVALID Former Senator Hollis Would Appear to Have ' Pair of "Wives CASE HELD UNUSUAL New Hampshire Dignitary Says He Was Guided By Lawyers SOFIA April 19. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) The divorce Issued to former L'nlted States Senator Henry F. Hollis of New Hampshire by the pastor of the Unitarian hurt h at Duh-n.tza Duh-n.tza is not officially recognized by ihe Bulgarian states and possesses no . g ! rorc-. the department of leligion and education of the fdrelgh office has ndise,l the BulgBTian legation in Washington Trie religion 0 ,-p.i rt ni en t denies having hav-ing given offP-ial approval lo the divorce di-vorce papers, and the government 1" Instituting proceedings against Pastor Toplislc;,. Who granted the divorce. Ii )P. I HELD I VlilD Dr. Dobtshef. jjrofessor of Canonical law at Sofia university, declares the divorce Invalid by virtue of the Bulgarian Bul-garian laws He points out that Bulgarian Bul-garian religious authorities have not the power to annul u marriage con-! con-! summated civilly either at home or abroad and says that only the civil nuthorlts which executed such a mar-' mar-' riage can annul It. The Bulgarian nwpapers are printing print-ing long articles commenting on the unusualness of the rase. Mr Holiis we'll known here, as he hud repre ! sented a large American corporation seeking to sell the government excess 1 American war stocks of freight cars. HOIIilS I MM1 N I S PARIS. April 19'. (By the Aso-cia'ted Aso-cia'ted Press.) Former Senator Hollis when Informed of the Bulgarian government's gov-ernment's action in declaring his recent re-cent divorce Invalid said "All I care to say now Is that T acted act-ed upon what 1 considered sound legal advice. T am confident the Divorce will stand." He added that the dlvoroe docu-i docu-i ments had been authentlacted by ;ho Bulgarian minlstei at Rome. |