GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1922, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

THE LAW ON BETTING. By Telegraph. —Press Assn. —Copyright. London, March 21. Mr. Shortt stated that he would not oppose a Bill for the removal’ of the present conditions under which people were recovering betting debts paid by cheques. EVIDENCE OF MARRIED WOMEN. London, March 21. Arising out of the Peel case, Lady Astor introduced a Bill in the House of Commons amending t-hfe law with regard to the presumption of coercion in offences by married women. LENIN’S ILLNESS. Berlin, March 21. In connection with the departure of Professor Klemperer to attend Lenin, a local Russian newspaper states that Lenin has been ill at intervals for a long time, partly as a result of the wound inflicted by a would-be assassin. Recently he has become much worse.

FAMINE-STRICKEN ARMENIA. Rondon, March 20. The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Mail says the evidence of the desperate straits of the famine-stricken inhabitants of Bolshevik Armenia is given by the grisly spectacle of armed Reds encircling the cemeteries at JErivan to prevent the disinterment of corpses. An organised attempt has been discovered to sell them as butcher’s meat. Numerous arrests have been made. Wolves are harrying the outlying villages. Two soldiers on outpost duty were devoured. Food riots Mt breaking otft in the towns.