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'THE IRISH SHY FROM MARRIAGE'
Priest's Warning Of Extinction
South Bend, Ind, Jan. 8.
A priest at Notre Dame said today that residents of Ireland will become as ex-i tinct as some birds unless they stop dodging marriage.
The Hev. John O'Brien of the University of Notre Daine said
the Republie of Heland tuted for its beautiful colleens
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as a rapidly becoming a nation
of bachelors and old maide Not that of まよって residinis were
marrying
and many
of those who dirl postponed the trijs
until later than usual,
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lowest birth rates b
world," add the Rev. O'Brien In an whole entitle
"Vanishing
Irish" in the January issue of a published by the magazine
Bencdeline Fathers at St Bene- dirt, Oregon.
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The Re O'Brom sed that the population 20 counties
had dwindled by almost 4,000.- 900sons in 100 years About 6,548,000 Hved the
1840 and aly 2 992,034 une hundred years later.
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LOWEST IN WORLD
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Jeaned the Tale age tarted which others finally gave in.
cheats het disclosed that only two out of five Irish citizens between 30 and 34 we mark the lowest proportioal
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pending trogedy." he said.
The Rev. O'Brien, author and eurer at Notre Dame, bared Fi conclusions on a study and person! tour of the Republie. --United Press.
Korea Volunteers
Some 340
volunteers
will arrive
London, Jan. B.
Belgian and Dutch
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1952.
Malaya Student-Teachers To Train At British College
"TERROR
Some of the 150 student-teachers from Malaya who have just arrived in London. They are the first of several hundred who are being sent to Britain to train at West Kirby, Liverpool, at a college placed at the disposal of the Federated Malayan Government, — London Express Picture,
Appeals To Mossadegh
Telieran, Jan, 8.
The Speaker of the Per- sian Parliament (Majils) wrote 10 Prember Mos-
sadegh today assuring lin tha! order and security Existed In Che Majlis and that he need fear nothing. and invited hilt in attend the next session when an opposition motion to set up an eight. man elections supervisory board will be debatrà,
It is officially revealed
the Pakistan Am
that bassador la Washington has sent a message to Premier Mussadegh advising him to continue ellorts to bring abous a solution of the Anglo-1
-Iranian oll dispute World accepting the Bank's suggestions and calling
him not to re- Jec. the Bank's good alfier
which Was que The last
effective me solve the dead- means to lock.-United Press.
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Record US
Budget
Washington, Jan. 8. President Truman will sub- mit to the Congress around January 21 a record $85,000,- 400,000 budget for the fiscal year 1952-53.
Seventy-six per cent of the expenditures will be devoted for the zarmament of the United States and its Allies.
For the irst time in many prospective expenditures
en route dor Kurea will exceed receipts.
Portsmouth + This precedented peace-
al on Thursday The volunteers | time budget has only been ex- will be taken to Southampton | ceeded by
two war-time bud-
was
by mad to embark aboned the i gets when expenditure British Transport Empire Fowey, about $95,000,000,000.--France-
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Fijian Battalion Sails For Service
In Malaya War
Suva, Fiji, Jan, 3. Men, women and children wept today as they stood together in crowds in the heart of Fiji's capital along the route taken by departing Fijian troops for Malaya.
wave
Many others made no secret that they were close to tears in an unprecedented
of emotion which swept Nuva as the First Battalion of the First Infantry Regiment boarded the troopship Asturias to join the Bri- lish forces in Malaya struggling to wipe oul Communist jungle guerillas.
The saling of the Battalion ; blastic direct result of the Foar
the British Government in 1950 to serve whợ: ve nec.led "against the King's entries."
Young and keen, the island fighters include a leavening of World War II veterans, many of whom won British und American decorations in the Solomons.
Every soldier is a volunteer
DECLARATION" IN ISRAEL ΤΟ BE RESISTED Premier's Assurance
Jerusalem, Jan. 8.
The Israeli Prime Minister. Dr David Ben Gurion, tonight told the Israeli nation that the Government was able to reply to any attempts to carry out political assassinations.
In a broadcast to the nation, the Premier said that Israel's security forces would defend the coun- try's liberty against "the movement of political assassins."
Dr Ben
In his broadcast Gurion assured his listeners that Israel would remain a demo- eracy and all signs of terrorism would be destroyed.
sday,
to the
The meeting was held with police permission. Blue-coated police and troops in khaki uni- foras were conspicuous in the streets tonight, held in readiness in case the situation should take an ugly turn.
Ho directly referred Freedom Movement's leader, Menachin Beigin's, threat! suying:
The Peace Movement" open "Belgin's mean a declaration of a mass meeting attracted terror."
about 1,000 supporters tonight. The Premier, who linked right-wingers of the Freedom yesterday's riots. Speakers urged
There was no
repetition of Movement and Communists us
Knerseth not to deal with terror-mongers, said: "The police "neo-Nazis of Bonn" and the Army will undo the
and plots.'
join the "anti-Soviet Western Fascist front."
an
Describing yesterday's
rlots. Dr Ben Gurion said: "There has been
attempt to take away the
of powers decision from the hands of the nation's representatives and to destroy our democracy
the
the
not to
The meeting was held about a mile from the Knesseth build- ing-Reuter
PALESTINE CONFLICT
Paris, Jan. 8. Supported by Syria, Egypt
"I know it is not so difficult to carry
out orders, even of today abrongly attacked the Cabinet
Ministers. It is clear compromise proposals for settle- against
whom is directed the ment of the Palestine conflict fight to the death of Mr Beigin, put forward in November by but there are enough police to the Palestine Conciliation Com- defend the nation's liberty mission whose report is now
gainst
movement
of under
debate before the Ad hooligans and political assassins Hoc Committee of the Umited
prevent them prolonging Nations. this terror."
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Abdel Monem Mostafo (Egypt) stated he felt biller- ness towards statements made
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LEE and LIBERTY
Conan led by New Zealand and each regards the Malaya job 1s t|: which the jungle-wise and Pajur officers, the Battalion Fijians are well fitted to under-Knesseth, where the debate on (Afghanistan)
The Premier stated: "We will in opening the debate by Dr not allow them to turn Israel | Philip Jessup (United
States) into a Syria or a Spain. There who called on both parties to will be no minority rule in the conflict to speed a settle- Israel."
mer ment in. the interest of the Dr Ben Gurion said that the security of the
entire
Middle Government was conscious of East area.
danger and took seriously Both the United States and the threats voiced by the Free- France, he said, seemed to be
Movement's leader
but setting aside the legal added: "The nation will sup- of the dispute and to be accept- aspects port. Its elected representatives.
ing
the situation In Palestine Several thousand people to-
as an accomplished fact, night
pressed around the Abdul
Hakim Tabibi the supporting the bitterly-contested issue of claim of the Arab States, said Behind
Israel's direct negotiations with that none of the United Nations farewell, however. there was
Germany was due to be re- strong feeling amung responsible sumed. For the last two months the Britons
Cylindrical in Fiji, including the
barricades of frenja have been undergoing Methodist Church to which 90 barbed wire and steel-helmeted
anivetaining in Fu unier per
cent of Fiji's 130,000 Fiji police held the throng off. the supervision of a British Army people belong, that this call on Major from Malaya who advised the unquestionable loyalty of on new jungle fighting technique. Fijians may impose too heavy
social systems.
strain on their economic and
texpects To maintain the brilliant
traitn
inught
take.
by Fijians who side the Americans During World War I,
When they arrive in Malaya the Fin will have special trømning in the jungles before gong inte action.
Sweated
Labour In Tokyo Mill
Tokyo, Jan. 8.
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A Japanese girl's letter to a Tokyo newspaper led to police raid on a cotton spinning m last night and the arrest of its operator and three of his offices en sweat-shop charges.
Police said the operator, "Hideyoshi Nagai, 47, was fore- ing his crew of 320--mostly teen-age girls-to work in two shifts frem 4 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to I am, alternate- ly
was
They also said most of the girls were forced to work with- out days off and to live 16 to a room together, Overtime puid al seven to eight yên- about two cents an hour.
Most of the girls were re crutted from poor peasant families in North-western Japan with an advance payment
of wages.
The fur
new
men arrested were charged with violating Japan's Labour Standards Law, which was set up after the war to avoid some of the sweet-shop
conditions that formerly
pre-
vailed in pre-war Japon
The raid was touched off when one of the girls wrote to the Yomiuri, one of Japan's glant dialies, saying, "We are slaves
labour atidard law officers are
only
looking on the other side."
The paper took up the matter with the authorities and the rald resulted. Associated Press,
Congress Back
In Session
Washington, Jan 8
The 82nd Congress forth) resumed. The version his
The working perio ever, will start tomorrow, after Hood when Pronáànt
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The Battalion expects to serve in Malaya for two years. No official statement on its duties in Malaya is yet available. United Press.
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MASS MEETING
At the same hour £5 the Knesseth was to meet, the "Peace Movement" and the Communists had called an open air mas
to protest meeting against the negotiations with "hep-Nazi Germany"
resolutions had been carried out in such 8 way as to protect Arab rights sufficiently.
He contended that the com- promise proposals advanced to the Paris Conciliation
con- ference in November last were not accordance with previous United Nations resolutions.
Syria's Adan Atassi stressed that Arab refugees had an un-
to crispuable right repatriation which could not be subjected to bargaining.-United Press.
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