TRAIN WRECKING CIVIL MARRIAGES MURDER CONEESSED

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 8

TRAIN WRECKING

CIVIL MARRIAGES

MURDER CONEESSED

ATTEMPT IN INDIA

PERPETRATORS CAUGHT

(Beceived Ist August, 2 p.m.)

CALCUTTA, 31st July.

An attempt to derail a crowded Grans Trunk express at a lonely spot near. "Wardha in the Central Provinces ■ was i frustrated. Two men' were seen placing iron bars across the rails. One. was arrested and his accomplice apprehend-; ed later in a nearby village with fiv* others. v . :

ARCHBISHOP'S DECREE

(Eeoeived Ist August, 2 p.m.)

MADEID, 31st July.

■ In response to the Government d« cree recognising only civil marriages, Archbishop Eijo, of Madrid, broadcast a decree stating that such marriages moau living in sin, and that the offspring would be canonicaily illegitmate. Those married by civil authority would be ineligible to act as god-parents and would be ineligible for burial in consecrated ground.

SENTENCE OF DEATH

(Beceived Ist August, 2 p.m.)'

. CALCUTTA, 30th July. Abdul Eashid, a Moslem hospital orderly, was sentenced to' death for the murder of Dr. Coldstreani, of thelndiail Medical Service, in the Peshawar Hospital. Eashid confessed and made no defence.