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Show J PR I L Soviets Nationalization Scheme Forces Girls to Shame. FREE LOVE BUREAU Girls Seized and Carried Off Murders and Suicides Result. LONDON. April 15 (Correspondence (Correspond-ence of The Associated Press.) The law providing for the nationalization I of women in northeast Russia has1 . been suspended in one province as the-'result the-'result of popular outcry, according to ' information reaching London from I Stockholm. The commissary of Vladi-mir Vladi-mir has. by decree, appointed a committee com-mittee of women who are to inquire into the operations ot the law and jmake a report with tTe least possible delay. This action has been approed by t he Jocal so let The Krasnaya Gaxeta publishes an I , account of the results of nationalization. nationaliza-tion. The system provides that every I girl on reaching the age of 18 mus t register her name in the bureau of! free love, after which she is compelled to select a partner from among men i between 19 and 50 years old. The, law led to lamentable confusion, says, th GriZeia. in judicial notions u lo personal inviolability." A few days after the soviet"? decree, j which women very generally ignored i two men known to nobodv arrived in I the town and seized two daughters of a "well known non-bourgeoise com-1 com-1 rade," declarinp they had chosen them as wives and that the girls, without further ceremony, must submit as they had not observed the registration ru'e. Girls Carried Off. Comrades Rablonovski and Guriakin who sat as judges on the claim, decided decid-ed the men were rizht and the clrls were carried off They have not since been heard of by the village folk. This, says the Gazeta. was done In tbe name of the nationalization of , women. Many other instances of the fantastic fantas-tic operation of the law. not to speak of its inhumanities, are cited by the Gazeta. Enthusiasts for nationalization, nationaliza-tion, naturally all males, raid whole villages, seize young pirls and demand I proof that they are not over 18 As I this proof is difficult to give, many of the pirls are carried off and there have been suicides and murders as a result. In the town of Kovrov a campaign without parallel since the Trojan war was waced between Ihe vencetul relatives rela-tives of an abducted nationalized idrF 'and her perseeutors. ' In this town "the register of nationalized na-tionalized women," was opened on December De-cember first, but up to February first lonlj two women, both over forty and' neither of whom had ever -been married, mar-ried, recistered themselves as Willing to accept the first husband the state-sent state-sent alonjr I On the committee to revise the nationalization na-tionalization decree or lo recommend its complete abrogation is Mme. Vera Arkadieff, a Bolshevik who commanded command-ed a detachment of women soldier.; during the recent operations against. Admiral Kolchak's army at Perm. She has been twice wounded. nn |