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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 354, 23 March 1922, Page 6

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Jnnnn will not take lornml cognisance l lot the ch ages of rcpi’csenlalivcs ol the. I Chita Government that Marshal Jolfro j hail negotiated a Ei'cnch-Jnpnnese 1 agreement regarding .Siberia. A high 1 official declares: “The Government feels j the charges arc. too ridiculous to be digi niffi ii with a denial.” i A sanitary conlcrcnce has opened in i Warsaw to examine the epidemic sil-na-(mn in Eastern Europe.' 1 lie medical director of the League of Nations stated that J.UfKI.OBU had died in Russia |Toni typhus. The sanitary situation was worse llii.s year than lasi, and there were 1000 eases of cholera in the Ukraine. Native soldiers at Cairo employed in assisting the police applauded a proces--:<>11 of demonstrator;-. The incident is ii gTi-'hd seriously as it is creating the impression that the soldiery are untrustworthy. They have therefore been withdrawn and replaced by native While Lady Aster, who is the first woman to introduce a measure in the British L’c.iliatiiehl, was introducing a Bill in the House ol Commons to amend: the law in relation to the presumption of coercion in the case ol ol-k-hc-es' by married women. Lord I 11sw a ter was drawing attention to the.snhi: ft of coercion of wives in the House oi Loads. He said: “If we want to maintain respect lor the law. it is ■•ary that the law should he strictly in accord with present customs, thought and social relations. We must there--Imv abandon the presumption that a husband would coerce his wife.” Lord R-nckmaster took the opposite view.

“Miish;imis, ’ ho said, “coniTinted to econo their wives.” Lord Birkenhead agreed that the subject required reconsideration. ami he proposed to set up an expert committee to report.