BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] FRENCH DOWRIES. PARIS, August 29. The French Departmental Councils advocate that dowries he provided for country girls, so as to prevent ivn influx to the towns by insuring each girl at birth for one hundred sterling, to be payable on tlieir reaching tlie age of 21 years, the payment to be Conditional on its being used on marriage, as a payment towards securing a home. SOVIET FACTORIES. RIGA, August 29. According to tho Soviet Press, tho measures adopted up to the present by tlie Soviet to meet t‘ ! ’e loss in output in tho factories owing to the enormous number of malingerers among the workers, have entirely failed. Physical assaults oil the doctors for refusing f> grant them opportunities for carousing instead of working, are rapidly increasing. Many of the doctors have been killed or injured in carrying, out their duties. , The Council of Soviet Trade Unions is appealing to all the members energetically to fight such hooliganism. . CHINESE WAR. PEKING. August 30. The southerners have commenced a concentrated drive on the Allied left flank at Hsienning, which is fifty tnilcs from Hankow. The fighting is fierce. Wu Pei Fn has arrived at the scene of action, and is directing the ,Allied defence. According to the latest reports tho Allies are still holding Hsienning. Fight students on being convicted of blowing up a bridge ten miles from Hankow, which seriously delayed the despatch of Allied reinforcements to the front, were beheaded.