CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1936, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

WOMEN’S NATIONALITY

(PBESS ASSN. OOPTBIGHT.)

LONDON, August 10

The Home Office has informed the Women's Freedom League that the King cannot be advised to act on their petition, to give British women the independent right to their own nationality, irrespective of the nationality of their husbands.

EGYPTIAN COURTS

ALEXANDRIA, August 10

The Wafdist newspaper “Jihad” states that Britain has agreed to support Egypt's demand for the abolition of mixed courts. The European communities are alarmed, and predict that this will lead to the withdrawal of foreign capital, and the limitation of foreign business.

EX-WOMAN AS HUSBAND. LONDON, August 10. A former girl became a husband’, when Mark Weston, aged 30, who until three months ago believed himself to be a woman, was secretly married to Miss Alberta Bray at the Plymouth registry office. Weston is an ex-Inter-national athlete. FRENCH WHEAT. PARIS, August 10. The Senate enacted the wheat dictatorship plan by 164 to 89 votes. NAZIS AND JEWS. GENEVA, August 10. Friedrich Eisenegger was arrested after his return from Germany to Berne. It is alleged that he wrote to Dr. Goebbels, asking for funds to Germanise Switzerland . He posessed a Nazi letter asking him to act as a. spy •i the Jewish Congress, which is in nirse of progress here. BERLIN, August 10. j

Jewkh refugees rescued from Spain ’.y German warships were interned in •oncentration camps, on arrival here.