And everywhere woman's voice rises, demanding her political right — indeed, her social right. In Lebanon, the women engaged in the women's movement held a meeting, to be followed by another, in which they discussed the question of inheritance and the injustice that befalls woman in it; and they resolved to ask the government to consider a law that had been submitted to it guaranteeing woman's complete equality with man in this matter.

Polygamy

Woman's voice rises loudly in this quarter. In Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, a demonstration of 20,000 women went out into the street, demanding an end to polygamy and to child marriage.

In Singapore

The women engaged in the women's movement met, and the secretary of the general women's council cried out among them, saying: our first aim is to strive against polygamy, and against a man's marrying a second woman before he has divorced the first. We are striving with all our strength to lift this injustice from us.

On Land and Sea

The most important women's event of the past month came from Pakistan: woman has entered all branches of military service exactly like man. The first women's battalion donned sailors' dress and went down to the Pakistani destroyer Jhelum to train aboard her. The women's land battalions have likewise begun training in the carrying of arms and in marksmanship under the supervision of army officers. The ranks of young Pakistani women in sailors' and soldiers' dress appear as splendid as can be. And Mrs. Liaquat Ali Khan

has visited the women's camps, saluting and encouraging.

National Guard

In Egypt, more than a thousand girls have donned the dress of the National Guard and marched in the streets of Cairo with rapid-firing rifles and machine guns on their shoulders. Woman's role in the National Guard is the medical services, nursing, and the guarding of hospital trains for the wounded and of field hospitals. As for enlistment in all its branches, it may come soon. A hundred applications a day reach the command from mothers and wives wishing to join the National Guard, but the responsible authorities think it best to confine themselves for the present to students of the schools and universities.

Almost Soldiers

In Iraq, troops of Girl Guides took part in the military parade, while other troops of them stood at the corners carrying baskets of flow-ers, clapping and cheering; troops of Syrian Girl Guides had earlier taken part in the military review.

The Governments

In Egypt it was the government itself that drew up a draft

law limiting polygamy and the incidence of divorce, providing that the husband who wishes to divorce his wife must obtain special leave from a competent judge, who examines the hus-band's financial condition and his circumstances, and whether they permit him to marry a second time. The draft law also entitles the wife who is divorced without cause to claim compensation. This draft law is under study, and the responsible authorities hold that divorce built on rashness and haste threatens the life of the Egyptian family with danger.

And in India

The government has likewise drawn up a draft law giving woman the right to judge and to sit on the bench exactly like man; the members of the legislative assembly are studying this law with a view to discussing and passing it...

In the British Parliament

Mrs. Jennie Lee, wife of the British minister Bevan, was counted the youngest woman member of the British Parliament. She had been her husband's secretary; then they married. She entered Parliament at the age of 23, and she and her husband are the only married couple both sitting as members in the House of Commons. Mrs. Bevan has distinguished herself in the field of domestic politics; she is, besides, an able journalist who holds the post of editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tribune. The two member-spouses are visiting Egypt today...

A Medal

The United Nations has awarded a medal to the widow of Rama Rau, India's former ambassador to it, for her unceasing defense of women's rights in India.

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