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YACHT MYSTERY DEEPENS

Astonishing Claim By Survivor

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Rabat, Mar. 4. The mysteries of play- boy Freddy MacEvoy's last fatal cruise plagued the Moroccan Police unew to- day as one of the Austrian- erew members claimed to be a fugitive from Russian "atomic weapons."

The sun, Fred Leniner, 28, in Walter Prexmarer, plénded with the Appeal Court here not to perm exiradition to the So- vivi Zone of Berlin on changes of murdering a German servant girl in 1945,

Heald, "Don't send me back, The Ru know I know too

mich."

Lentner was engineer on the luxurious yucht Kangawo which faundered off Cape Can- ten, south of Casablanca, Nov. 5, with the loss of six including that of the Australian sportsman and his pretty third wife.

on

ves,

MacEvoy was a familiar ure in the international set und once served as ben man t Errol Flynn's wedding.

Reports have circulated ever converted pilot- since that the

be might have boon rauning liquor or guns to Moroccan tribesmen.

"ATOMIC FACTORY"

court

Lentner's story had etheials frankly baffled. Earlier, he had confessed to shooting t guard in Russian forced la-

But bour comp near Vienna. in the present hearing, which will render a decision

on ex- tradition, he denied slaying mald, Lisbeth Ober, and sald, I was taken prisoner by, the Tussians in 1945 and later put to work as an Interpreter in a faeteny.

This factory made

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the latest type of weapons in- cluding atomic as wall 25 V-1 and V-2 lying bombs, and I found out lots going on there."

testimony placed Previous the alleged "atomie factory" at Klosternenberg, near Vienna.

Lentner said he escaped dur- ing a mutiny of 2,000 German prisoners.

Claiming that he was trailed by the Russian Secret Police he sald that he had "procured" Prexmater's papers and changed his identity. In Berlin, he con- tinued, he knew Lisbeth Ober as the girl friend of Prexmarar but denied being involved. in the

killing.

MacEvoy allegedly soolt pily on Lunteer and hired him for the l-fated trip-United Press,

Labour Motion

Defeated

A SENSATIONAL

MURDER, CASE

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Population Increasing

Marie Besnard, 55-year-old widow who is the central figure in one of the most sensational murder cases in France for years. She is accused of the mur- der of 11 of her relatives and friends, including two husbands, by arsenic puisening, Express Service.

Heated Debate

On

The Pacific Pact

'Canberra, Mar. 4.

Mr Arthur Calwell, Deputy leader of the Labour Opposition, said tonight that the Austra

At

Fastest

Rate Ever

Over Two Billion People On Earth

Washington, Mar. 4.

The world's people are multiplying at the fastest rate in history.

Latest UN world census figures indicate that about 75,000 more people show up every morning at breakfast tables around the world. That means there are about 75,000 more births than deaths each day.

The United Nations population yearbook es. timates that about 2,400,000,000. people, now live on the earth.

Increase

Queen Victoria's Dress Worn

Eastbourne, Mat. 4. Opening an exhibition of gutiques at Eastbourne to-, day, Alderman Miss Ellen Thornton wore a black dres that once belonged to Queen Victoria.

Afterwards the revealed that the dressmaker who nudo # for tho Queen more than 80 years ago is still alive,

She Is Bilse Rachel Duko, aged 80, the oldest resident of an almshouse in tingham-Router.

Not-

NEW OIL TALKS IN

TEHERAN

Tehran, Mar. 4.

The British Charge d'Affaires, Mr George Middleton, today conferred with the Iranian Foreign Minister, Baghe: Kasemi, and was later recolved by the Prime Minister, Dr Mohammed Mossadagh.

There is a net increase of, the-way places. And the about 20,000,000 people a year.

evidence shows it takes only In a year it adds up to the peace and stability plus a lik No comment was available on population of three cities the medical or other technical know- the talles which took plaze chorily size of New York, or of a nation | lesge to make the population in | after Mr Middleton's return from equal to Mexico.

many remote regions skyrocket. London, If this expansion continues at For instance, In one small area its present rate the world will the population

WIS Premier Mossadegly will to- be three times as crowded with three times the fastest estimated morrow receive the International people in 100 years, experts world rate after the region had Bank representative, Mr Hector estimate.

been treated with enough DDT Prudhomme, who arrived here Some population authorities to keep down mesquitos and from London today. 3.sume that man has lived on othe: discase-bearing peats over earth about 100,000 years and a period of years. This was cstimate that his numbers in- because the death rate declined creased only to around 200,000,- to sharply when some disease 033

or 300,000,000 by the time was eliminated. of Christ. This period would Topresent about 20 per cent of existence, if the calcula- man's flons are correct.

In the 1.650 years after Christ In India, for instance, and the population just about dou-some other countries where the

led, from less than 300,000,000 to possibly 550,000,000, the cal- culations Indicate. This was at qurations the dawn of "modern timea" alt the year 1050.

The UN report says the declin- ing death rate is the main reason world population is increasing so rapidly.

Mr Prudhomme carried with, of the him counter-proposals British Government on the oil question..

An Iranian Deputy, Hossein Maki, a former member of the Oil

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that Iran had come to a decisive

turning point in oll dispute.

binth rate always has been high. Speaking over the radio, Mak! about half the children die bo-launched

violent attack

fore they reach 15. In the US against the British and the about four out of every 100 Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. childron may be expected to die before 15.--

rate

Iran, he said, had won the first victory und those who wanted to recover possession of Iranian oil tried to do so through economic blockade and by pro- voking internal disorders.

But in the 300 years since then the population has sky

NEW RECORD rocketed to amund 2,400,000,000.

If India's child death If the estimates are anywhere could be cut to the US level, Per cerrect this means that about 150,000,000 lives would 300 years, since 1850, the world

be saved every 25 years, a pum- caloid almost 10 limes the

ber

ulenost

the equal to all number of people it had ac

He urged the Iranians not people in the US.

to give up and ad: "It is The great world population butter that our oil remain vo- spurt reached a peak between exploited temporarily - rather the two world wars, In the than to let it fall into the hands hinges, but is now setting an of people who, plunder our re clay new record.

cutdated in his Brst 100,000 While the UN yearboolt con- tail about world population, the count

lian Ambassador to the United States, Mr Percyns around 000 pages of de- Spender, would be brought home "if necessary by the scruff of the neck" should the Labour Party be

returned to power.

figures are not all based on a' Estimates indicate that at the of noses. Huge areas time of Christ up to around have never known a cenzus 1650 the annual rate of in- taker. And so thore are bound erease was not more than one 10 be miscalculations because person added to each group of External many He made this statement in Mr Silchard Casey,

important figures are 1,000 people, even in the peak House of Representallyes Affairs Minister, fold the House estimates, not actual counts. In the course of the debate on that be completely rejected the end reading of the bill "this dreadful accusation" to ratify the Paelle ginet.

against Mr Spender.

the

"It is a slur ou an honour-

able man," he said. "It is out of keeping with his character and

Labour Party members have claimed during the debate on the bill that Mr Spender acted as a traitor when he wie Ex-record," ternal Affairs Minister by divat- of the Australian cim secrets Kaval base on Manus Island, so the Press.

into this

Accurate gurta are available, however, for. some of the out-of-|

Acheson's Challenge

To Peking

Mr Casey said that H Mr Spender had given a secret fle Landen, Mar. 4.

Manus Island to Pressmen, The

would House of Commons

have written an in- tonight rejected n Labour move

finitely better story than Mr Calwell said, "If the preiat published. to e:itielse the Government's handling of Central African seat Government won't appoint

When Mr Casey began his federation.

a Royal Commission

Washington, Mår. 4. The United States Secretary he said that the political party "It defeated by 256 votes to 238 matter we will appoint our own speech winding up the debate a motion to reduce the Colonial inquiry

we come back controversy over Manus Island of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, to- taken and bring the Australian Ahad taken up two-thirds of the day

the challenged Omce's estimates by a amount. It was on this motion bassador back from Washington Opposition's debating time on Communists to submit to an that the debate took place to testify, if necessary by the the Pacific pact.. Reuter.

scruff of the neck."

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(In actual numbers this means that around 300 years ago about 500,000 people were being added

each year to the world total. Now the annual increase is almost 60 times that number),

CAUSES WORRY Between the wurs the yeafly rate of increase reachod á pouk of

about 10 persons for each group of 1,000.

It declined during World War I but is now at its highest rate,

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Malaya Trade

Singapore, Mar. 4. Malaya had an adverse trade balance in January for the first time since October 1951.

Sho imparted STS$387,355,- 249 and exported only STS$370,- 018,160.

from

malaly

and

Imports were bighest the United Kingdom--STS$89,- per 250,203 comprising

consumer goods; textiles. 1,000.

machinery, Imports from In- to anyone worrying about the donesia Chinese

came second with increase?

STS$45,457,325 made up mainly Many are, and many have in the

of rubber, copra and spices charges that United Nations past, They ask where is all which are reshipped to Europe forces were waging germ war the food and all the elbow-room and the United States, fare in Korea.

coming from?

Tho United Kingdom The bill passed its second

In a statement tonight Mr Others tre confident the the biggest share of Malaya's reading on a volce vote.

rate will level Acheson described the charges growth

off exports-STS$89.003,943. Mr Casey, winding up the that the United Nations

were eventually,

United States, which led in De- debate, said that the pact was spreading "plague through in-

As for population experis, cember, 1951, with STS$108,~' the greatest single step forward in International relations that sects" as

asid an they feet, their job is to count 222,192, took only STS$79,013,- "nonsense" "entirely false accusation." people, not feed them. 171 in January-Associated Australia had taken in a great Mr Acheson

P:c59. that Associated Press. recalled when similar charges

were

·many years.

"The survival of this country made previously it had been

is at stake, not in 10 years' time made clear "we would welcome ironi a possible Japanese re-

militarism, Fugence et

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mittee of the Red Cross.

The Communists, fully aware "This pact is the first real of the falseness of their charges, safeguard this country has had of course refused, Mr. Acheson against that monace. As such it

said.

sion," he said,

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Australian," Mr Casey stated,

"We again challenge the their

He added that the pact was Communists to submit probably the strongest single charges to the light of truth by contribution to peace in the allowing such an impartial, In- Pecife that had ever been vestigation," Mr Acheson do- brought about.-Reuter..

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