CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS
EXECUTION OF WOMEN. (Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, December 22. Sir J. Gilmour (Home Minister) in reply to a question in the House of Commons, said that the Government refused to legislate to ' prohibit the hanging of "women who were sentenced to death. SPANISH LOTTERY. MADRID, December 23. The wife of Senor Azana, the exPremier, who is a prisoner on a gunboat in Barcelona, following on the October rising in Spain, has won second prize of £85,000 in the Spanish Christmas lottery. SIR G. ARLISS? LONDON, December 23. Gossipers in the Sunday papers are confident that George Arliss will receive a knighthood, in the New Year honours. GERMAN RAILWAY SMASH. BERLIN, December 23. Six were killed and 15 were seriously injured in a head-on collision on a single railway track near Murrhardt. Several carriages telescoped. A signalman was arrested. REWARDS FOR MOTHERS ROME, December 22. Mussolini is distributing £7O each to ninety-four of the most prolific mothers in Italy, whose total offspring is 910. He hailed them as an example to all Italian matrons. INSULL TRIAL. CHICAGO, December 21. Martin J. Instill has been acquitted on a charge relating to the embezzlement of 344,720 dollars, the funds of the Middle West Utilities Company.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 December 1934, Page 8
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