Tokyo, July 8.
Acting to improve communications between Japan, Mlanchoukuo and China, the Government is planning to organize an East Asia Communications Federation to take charge of radio broadcasting, it was announced today, The step was considered necessary in view of the completion of plans for telephone and telegraph companies in North and Central China The Mongkiang Telephone and Telegraph Company already has started business in Shansi and Suiyuan provinces, Organization of the East Asia Communications Federation will be carried out according to plans formulated by the Manchurian, Affairs Bureau of the Cabinet and the projected China Afairs Bureau of the Cabinet.
In broadcasting the North China and Central China Telephone and Telegraph Companies will use wave lengths formerly used by -the Nationalist Government.—Domei, in Austria until a later date.
The clauses dealing with annulment which are largely new provide that in future marriage cannot be annulled without a court verdict, Annulment pleas can therefore only be filed by the state attorney and the two parties concerned, Distinction is made in the granting of annulments between cases in which marriage is invalidated for the violation of the "race pollution" law and heredity laws, or because: marriage was contracted only for nominal reasons or to acquire the status of a citizen (in aforementioned cases, the annulment is retrogressive) and other cases where retrogressive effect is modified, particularly through the granting of a status of legitimacy to children born of the union, The so-called religious marriage impediments incorporated in the former Austrian law are abolished.
The divorce law in Germany is also placed upon a new basis, a reform having been undertaken for the purpose of emphasizing the prominent position of matrimony as the foundation of national life in the National Socislist state-and. to increase the respect for marriage. The dissolution of unions which have lost their value to ithe national community is on the other hand to be reasonably facilitated, This section of law is particularly significant for Austria because it abolishes the former principle of the indissolubility of Catholic mar-nages. Innumerable marriages in Austria which hitherto ended merely in a separation decree, can therefore now be definitely dissolved.—Trans-Ocean.
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