Moscow, May 20, A drive to raise the birth-rate behind the new legislation which has been drafted for the 2000 "roubles annually for every nth, tenth and. eleventh fu the tarnally and 8,000. for Treble the number of Kindorgartens to accommodate 2400/00 child Forbid divorce without the consent of both parties.
The alm of the new laws is to achieve a population of 300,000,000 in 35 years, as against the figure of a little over 162,000,000 record ed in the latest census—Reuler, April 1, 1997, has been fixed as the date for the introduction of provin~ lal autonomy in India under the Inow Constitution and for the separation of Burma, Prize money amounting to £10,000 for an alr race between London. and Johannesburg has been provided by Schlesinger, a South Afvican industrialist, 'The race, to. start September 15, is open' to aircraft and pilots of the British Empire, Mrs. J, A. Mollison, who added to her laurels recently by breaking the record for an England-Cape and Cape-England flight, will ty in the King's Cup air race in July for the first time; She has chosen a machine which Col. Charles A, Lindbergh tried out recently, Portugal had the largest surplus ever known in her history in the ancial year 1984-85, with the excess of Income over expenditure exjcoeding £3,000,000, During the eight years that' Dr. Salazar has been Premier, Budget surpluses have totalled over £.11,500,000—Reuter, Social origins discriminations and the Institute of Lishenzi of people deprived of social rights because their parents belonged to classes condemned by the Revolution in Russia, as the former nobility, ecclesiastics, Czarist police, gendarmes, and the like, have been abolished by'deeree promulgated by the Soviet Government.
There will be a further addition to the season's pageantries in London fon July 16 when the King will present new colours to six of the bat talions of the Brigade of Guards.
The Gold Medal of the Royal Acre Club was awarded on May 30 to Mrs, J. A, Mollison, the British aviatrix, in recognition of her many Empire Mights-—Reuter.
The Westminster Hospital site, opposite the Abbey, has been sold for £350,000. The Governors bought the site in 1681 for £6,000. The hospital Is being re-built et Milibank.—Reuter, Politically harassed but jealous of lis dignity, the House of Representa tives on May 20 ended a week of biekering by voting, 211 to 41, to cite for contempt Dr. Frederick E, Townsend, founder of the old-age pension move: ment bearing iis name, Mr. John Kiefer, and the-Rev. Clinton L. Wunder, all of whom have refused testify before the special House com~ mittee investigating the Townsend organization, Dr. Townsend recently walked out of the committee room after being denied permission to read slatement,, and the other two declined to appear in answer to sub-
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