Moscow Prison Interview Is Kept Secret Moscow, Feb. 11.
Mr. Angus Ward, American Consul in Moscow. interviewed Mrs. Adolph Rubens, arrested with Mr. Donald Robinson by Soviet police authorities here last December. The interview took place at the Butirskaya prison where Mrs. Rubens is being detained.
Without revealing details of the interview, Mr. Ward said he would immediately report to Washington for instructions Mrs. Rubens, of New York, disappeared from the Moscov where she had registered wit unidentified man, as Mr. and Mrs Robinson. Mr. Robinson was arrested first.
Despite passport irregularities in which Mrs. Rubens was involved, the United States Government continued its investigation of the arrests on grounds that they were American citizens. The interview with Mrs.
Rubens was granted to Mr. Ward as the result of official representations,—United Press.
T: kyo, Feb, 13 Troviding for zn increase of about Y.17,000000 in payments to the families of Japanese soldiers killed or wounded in action, a bill to revise the existing pension law was presented to the Diet to-day.
A salient feature of the bill is its likeness to social welfare legislation; it calls for increased compensation to the families of soldiers in the lower ranks of service, and to families having three or more members.
Subject to the approval of the Diet, the pension revisions will be put into effect on April 1. They will apply not only to troops fighting in the present China hostilities, but to the families of those who saw service in the Manchurian incident, the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, and the Russo-Japanese War.
Compensation boosts ranging between 20 and 80 per cent. are called for in the measure,
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