RUSSIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18352, 9 March 1920, Page 7

RUSSIA.

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. SOVIET LAWS PUBLISHED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright United Service. LONDON. March 2. The Soviet marriage laws, of which various versions were published in 1919, are now officially stated. They abolish all religious hindrances, supli a 3 differences in faith, and recognise only a civil compact, though they do not prohibit church ceremonials. The matrimonial ago is fixed at sixteen for females and eighteen for males. Community of property is not established, but each party is compelled to support the other in the event of need or inability to work. Mutual consent, or the desire of either party, suffices as a ground for divorce. Parental rights must bo exclusively exercised for the children’s benefit, but the Courts are able to abolish the rights if misused. Children are invested with solo rights in their own property and do not sharo any rights in their parents’ property. MOSCOW, March 2. It is officially announced that the Red Army lias taken Tichoretykaya.

IN THE CAUCASUS. Ranter’s Telegrams. (Received March 8, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 3

A Bolshevik communique states that the Reds in the Caucasus are advancing victoriously everywhere. They hovel reached the River Kakakink and captured Yegorlytslron. The Caucasus army during the past fortnight has captured seventeen thousand of Denikin’s army, which is gradually dispersing.