WORLD PROGRESS.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 372, 18 June 1926, Page 11

WORLD PROGRESS.

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INDIA. In India, a Convention is to be held in Delhi, when it is stated a Prohibition League for all India will be formed. BULGARIA. In no less than thirty districts in Bulgaria, local option conditions have been adopted prohibiting liquor shops. SWEDEN. Iu Sweden, continuous educative work is being carried out in anticipation of a referendum, tliat may bring prohibition by popular vote to the country. JAI'XX. The National Temperance League of Japan hopes to get through Parliament a bill that will raise the age limit from 20 to 25 for those allowed to be supplied with intoxicating liquors. GERMANY. In Germany, a local option measure was defeated by a majority of 20 in the Reichstag, but the matter is coming forward again this time backed by a petition signed by over 400,000 electors. ESTHOXIA. The Esthonian Parliament is considering legislation embodying local option. Sunday closing, the prohibition of the sale of liquor to those under tw’enty years of age, and the prohibition of liquor in amusement places. ROUMAXIA. A considerable reduction in the number of saloons in Roumania is a project now being considered by Parliament. The production of alcohol is being curtailed with a view’ to total Prohibition at the end of probably twelve months. CZECHOSLOVAKIA. The labour Party in Czechoslovakia recently issued a document stating that alcohol is delaying the coining of more ideal conditions, and that freedom will only be attained when the tight for emancipation is waged by sober and sound intellects. LITHUANIA. “Roman Catholics are particularly active in the temperance movement in Lithuania. One Roman Catholic Society has 200 branches and 20,000

members, another has 20,000, a third 5,000, and another 2,000 members. There is also a Roman Catholic Teachers’ Abstinence Society and a non-Catholic Youths' League. The consumption of alcohol is steadily decreasing. LATVIA. The Board of Education in Latvia has recommended that all schools should have total abstinence organisations. Parliament is being asked to prohibit alcohol advertisements, to prohibit dancine where alcoholic liquors are sold, and to restrict the hours of sale. It is stated that the sale of liquor is prohibited in all educational institutions, at exhibitions, railway stations, markets, theatres and public entertainments. WESTPHALIA TOWN RECORDS DRV VOTE. A test vote on the Pquor question iu Hagen, Westphalia, is reported to have resulted in a wide majority in favour of local option. The vote was 3.350 in favour, to 526 against, eighty-nine i>or cent of the electorate voting. Of those favoring option. 1,736 wen* women and 1,614 were men. PROHIBITION IN .IIGO-SLAN ARMY. “A drunkard is no soldier,” a recent order of the Jugo-Slav Minister of War, to that nation’s army, read. According to an International News Service dispatch from Belgrade, prohibition has come into the Jugo-Slav army, and lectures on the evil of drinking have been ordered by the Minister of War to be read in barracks and camps. THREE SCOTTISH CITIES H.M H DRY GOVERNMENTS. Following the example of Glasgow and Aberdeen, Scotland, Dundee has banned the use of intoxicants at all civic functions, and henceforth the official government of the city will he dry.