AS usual Turkey ret I r I I I tin her,ear and Eurepe Irenaers. While the memhors of 111c women's heerreot tr.ogriss ton with Kemal Atiturk some of their eisters ore vh.i ri H UhurldOlI theft charitable aerie= .1,■• rorce Or the IIPW law against,
ig,tous hubit.4. The Ladies of Zion, for example, have hod to give up two establishments, retaining only the one at Pankaidi.
Sisters Wear Secular Dress At the pm ricolar request of lloiy Sun that they should do all in their power to i•enserve nwir works, the Daughters of Charity are taking to sPro ess nurse's 'Anjou,' in hospitals, hut no sister is to be required tit do se egainst her will. The alternative is le leave the country.
It is aitid that, the American Protestant Robert College is about to close down.
Christianity is belie: sameezed out gradua 1 ly Irani ena progressive, ultramodern sho...'.." At Adana the Catholics have been reduced by nearly a third in twelve months: from eighty-eight to sixty aools.
The Women's Congress Ott Holy Saturday the Catholic delegates lo the international women's congress culled on Mgr. tioniasili, delegate apostolic at Istanbul. Of the twenty-seven present. from eleven different countries, seven wt•tro from the St. Joan's Alliance of Great Britain.
On Easter Monday the Archbishop himself offered Mass for these delegates a.t thin Franciscan church of St. Antony. Mrs. Corbett Ashley, president cif the congress, was present.
In the course of his address Mgr. Jim-teeth said, " It is a great work that you ore doing for civilization and internationalism, towards justlee and right. Do not, be afraid. Go forWard with courage,"
Women's Union To Go
The Union of Turkish women Is to he dissolved on the ground that. as Turkish women have acquired equal political rights with men, the union has no .further object left. This step is in keeping with the.government's desire to have 110 political organization in Turkey ()thee than the Republic-3,n People's party.