Moscow, Dec. 23.
Preparations for an anti-Christmas campaign again are in full swing here, as well as. throughout the Soviet Union.
Under the slogan that Christmas and its tradition is but "sentimental nonsense which no educated. toller will ever share." the Anti. God Movement is again heading the cam. Paign.
With the help of films of an anti religious tendency and lectures of especially trained agitators, the movement is spread to the remotest village and hamlet. Furthermore. there are anti-religious travelling exhibitions, while numerous anti God brigades will serve as a sort of shock troops, centring their efforts Moscow and_its environs.
In spite of all these precautionary measures to suppress the Christmas sentiment, Christmas wil still be observed in about a week from today—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
London, Dee. 28.
The inhabitants of Great Britain will become subject to a large variety of new laws on New Year's Day, one lof which Is the Anti-Betting Act.
Under the Anti-Betting Act, one may write to Dublin fora ticket In the Irish Sweep, but is by no means certain. to obtain it. The sale Gistribution of Irish Sweep tickets the manner of publication of the names of the winners is rigorously. pioseribed by the new measure.
Another bill provides that shop assistants under eighteen years old, who hitherto were lable to work 14 hours a week, shall henceforth work only 48 hours weekly. All shop. assistants must be guaranteed eleven hours of continuous rest in every 24 hours. Overtime is restricted to 24 hours' yearly.
Motorists, under another new law, will henceforth be obliged to pay 12/64. to a doctor summoned to give emergency treatment to their victims. Motor-cyclists must pay higher insurance rates and must insure pillion riders.
The County Courts Amendment Assistance, the
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