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Austrian Nation Will Be Extinct In 2,588 A.D.

Vienna, Dec. 13.

If the present decline in the birthrate con- tinues, the Austrian nation will become extinct in the year 2,588 A.D.

This warning is given by the Austrian Central Office for Statistics, a non-political official institu- tion, which declared in a recent report that to maintain the population at only its present strength, each married couple must have at least three children.

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India Will Not Take Sides

Council Fighting

For

Rights

Singapore, Dec. 13.

The stage is being set here for a battle the issue of which is not land or money, atom or hydrogen bombs, but wives,

The Singapore Women's Council which has a cosmopolitan membership of 1,000 has finalised a draft bill for submission to government which, if enacted into law, will prevent a citizen of Singa- pore to have more than one wife under penalty of seven years' imprisonment and a fine,

Under Muslim religious laws practised in Malaya,

a Muslim man is permitted to have a maximum of four wives simultaneously.

the

to

The Chinese male here can have. been "misused" in have as many concubines and Malaya and suggested a. re mistresses as he likes in addition | view. to his wife, arid such concubines The President of the Counell and mistresSES havo an equal of Religion and Malay Customs, share of the properly of the Chu Putch Akhir, said what husband should he do intestate, ever Singapore might do would Calcutta, Dec. 13.

In an exclusivo intorylow with ; not affect Malays In The Indian Prime Minister, United Press, Mrs Shirin Fozdar, Federation but ho refured Mr Nehru, today reiterated In-secretary of the Singapore comment further on nich dia's determination to remain Women's Council, declared the "controversial subject." friendly with other nations but women of Malaya are at

present

Mrs Fozdar said she expects did not wish to do with any being treated more like chauris sit opposition from religous

human beings and it is a as well as done that such an injustice on the proposed bill but she was other organisations

confident that the wemen Malaya would break from this bondage within two years.

one.

He recalled, at a public most- ing attended by about half a million people, the horrors of should be condoned.

Mrs Fordar ald Muslim men the last two world wars out of in Malaya are allowed to divorce which two strong powers to their wives without giving any

States United

and Russia emerged, Unfortunately

reasons whatever. Orzo was suspicious of the other, ho permite a Muslim man to marry She said although the Koran

of

"We have come to the stage when the rights of women can- longer," she said. not bo curbed very much

SM Nohrù arrived hero this four wives i also lays, down

Pointing out the position of cortain conditions which

are Madame Vijaya Lakshimi Pandit morning by air from Delhi.

Mr Nehru dwelt on the re-humanly impossible for the man S President of the United Sho claimed that Nations General Assembly, Mrs ported

negotiations between to comply. the United States and Paidistan his section of the Koran hos Fordar said "The days when during been misinterpreted by many, in women must take a back mat for a military alliance his 30-minutő specch.

of

Malaya,

Ho said that regardless

She said just as a man would are over."-United Press. what other countries do, not like to see his wife have India's polley da to ste that her four husbands at the same Ume, independence la not affected no woman would be happy to see CRITICISM and that sho can live in peace her husband have three other But, he added, the question rivals at home, she continued

SECTION 29

arosc

in

to

OF BERLIN MEETING

of "how an independent country in the modern world dan Mrs Fozdar said Section 29 of isolate herwelf from the events of the Koran dealing with divorce the world.

provides almost equal rights for GREAT HONOUR

women but this has not been

Paris, Dec. 13. Both the date and the site of "We therefore have become practised by Muslimis in Malaya. a member of the United She raid Persia and Turkey, the proposed four-power foreign Nations and it is a matter of which are two powerful Muslim | ministers conference were cri- great honour that the President nations have abolished the ticized tonight by tho Vice- of that great body is an Indian polygamous marriage act and President of the French National "We shall have to play a part agitation by the "Daughters of Assembly, M. Ciaston Falowal,

the great theatre

of the the

e leader of the former de Gaul- Nito

In Egypt is gaining world," Mr Nehru said.

momentum daily.

list

* group. Mr Nehru said all Asian Mrs Fozdar said she would In an address at St Denis, countries were looking to India, like to appent to women of the outside Paris, M. Palowaki ex- which had shown by example whole world to hold public meet-pressed "deep discontent" with how a country which lived ings and rallies to agitate that the date of January 4 proposed under

foreign rule

injustice for many this

Malayan by the three Western powers and taken up in the he suggested that ors achieved independence by women be

-the confer yours

United Nationa

Organisation" once should tako place on peaceful means.

Colonial exploitation had been so that Britain may

January 25. be com- eradicated in a number of Asian pelled to abide by the

Regarding the site of the con- Human

ference, M. Palowski said it and African countries, he said, Rights Charter..

of would have She said the majority

been eminently the struggle, was,continuing

Muslim women in Malaya are desirable to have chosen Parts With only two children per, ber of Infants will bo 30 per in others.

ides of their men or, if nonsty

Vienna South married couple, the population (cent, lower and the number; of

Africans are having against the

The being permitted more than ond

Vice-President added would suffer a loss of over 75 schoolchildren 30 per cent.lower. difficulties and they are looking wife but they dare not express that the--experience"--French

This means that in some 30 to India which has always show their opinion for tear that their government leaders

had just years, Austria could have to ed her sympathy in their fight, husbands would divorce them. had with the British Prims

mport" foreign workers who Mr Nehru added.Reuter.

NO MOVE

Winston Chur- According to the latest official would have to keep the old-aned

Opposition

chill. should have been 68 census, per cent of Austrian Austrians alive with their taxes.

The Groom Was Women's Council move is ex- The continuous decrease in

prove the necesalty households consist of one to three

pected to be violent and atomy for really representative persons. Only 15 per cent of all the population and the simul-

but religious and other organisa-

French governinont to ba households consist of four pestaneous increase in its average

tions are not making Austrian

A mas

mave

assigned the tale of defending until the draft bill has been sub- Franco's sons, eight per cent of five, five age is worrying the

position In this cent of six and four per authorities.

mitted to government formally. highly important negotiation." Only recently the Finance six persons, cipt of more than

Minlater, Herr

Ho concluded that was Reinhard

The chairman of a powerful including parents, grandpareols

A 40-year-old ex-prisoner of Muslim body which chocsca to not in the porfod of an inter- Kamitz, told tho Austrian other relativės,

war Richard Diddeu, did

in public authority, not remalas unidentified at the mo- regnum Parliament that he did not

appear at his wedding here to- how the. know

government

time the proposed draft bili problem could be undertaken. himself shortly before the ap- "would be beaten down and France-Presss. pointed time.

smashed to pieces."

per cent in one century, it added, But the Austrian average is even below this lure.

and

The situation In Vienna 18

and

Hanged

Saint Etienne, France,

Dec. 13.

Bilr

Minister, to the Singapore sufficient to

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even worse than in other parts would raise the necessary funds day because he had hanged ment said that at the appropriate | that a discussion of the German

of the country, according to the for pensions and report. There, households of one stitutions this alarming state

persons total 84 per of affairs continued. to three cent and since the annual death

He said that in the 1954 rate is already twice Ds high

budget estimates he had to set as the birth rate, population of

could Vienna

aside some 500,000,000 schillings become extinct (nearly

£7,000,000) more than in 130

ir years

were no there

lust year to maintain the pen- Inflow from the provinces,

sions at their present level. According to the Vienna birth

Austrian politicians and statistles for 1952, 57 per cent of all couples had only one child, scientists

demanding to halt 27 per cent had two children Government measures and only 10 per cent had threa dangerous trend. They say that the State should use financial inducements

or more children.

40 PER CENT For several decades now, the annual birth rate of Austrla has been continuously decreasing. Experts that his alarming development is mainly due to the growing financial misery of

| this

are

to

The bride and her relations

He charged that the move is a had been tapping their feet for "cheap pubilesty stunt" by a fow and told them the husband-lo-ndent that the govemment would some time when friends came "opportunists" and he was con- be had been found hanging in not interfere with religion... bis cellar-France-Pressë,

Opposition to the bil is strongest from the Federation Malaya where Muslim

of

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courago young couples to found plan for setting up an inter- "Such a' bhi would be inter- thenaton ciplina,, DAN

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Frankfurt, Dec. 14. Scientists Approve

almost unanimous War pensions are now being Atomic Pool that it would be beaton down paid to 4,500,000 people out of before it got anywhere to the a population of, nearly 49, million in West Germany, the discussion stage. Washington, Dec. 13, The Federation of American

A high ranking official who Government sald. Selentists toolght approves the rofured to be identified said larger familles. China Mall national atomic pool, considering fering with a person's liberty!

pensioners are victims of Special.

two world wars, including more it an opportune step contributing AGAINST PRINCIPLES to ensuring a greater inter- S.A.M. Aly Marican, another than one million from the 1914- rational

prominent Muslim

In the 19 war. tional co-operation.

Lum- This co-operation, added the Federal capital (Kuala

In 1850 the Government pald Benghazi, Dec. 13.

out 2,300 million darke (nearly am certain not a The United States Vice Pre-federation, was very necessary to pur), sald: the majority of the population, sident, Mr Richard Nixon, ar

reduce the stom threat.

single Muslim in the Federation 200 million sterling) and in which makes people reluctant rived here by alr today from working since its founding in gestion.

The dederation which has been of Malaya will accept this sug-1951 more than 3,000 million to found a large family,

It against the marks (about £260 Tripoli for The report of the General with King Idris.

general discussions 1946 for an international alomio fundamental principles."

sterling) in pensions.. He said not only Omce for Statistics revealed

the pro-

41090

besetting laclito We buy and sell- Before returning to Tripoll he control, further considered that that only in the matt: r

1,800,000

emillon DIAMOND, JADE, SÁPPITIRE four-power confer | pased bill echoduled

but its

orphens, ong вродот, legitimate children Austria told reporters "we had a frank once in Berlin: would offer a foc, would be barred from widows and widowers and

conversation concerning

*ASTOR JEWELLERY CO. doing quite well. With 20 per mutual friendship and the bags, coasibilities were for agrement conceded, however, that cor- killed in the two war There our chance of showing what the entering the Federation. He 2835,000 parents of servicemen cent of all children born each year legitimate, Austria is said at of our two countries.on guaranteed disasencemont tain sections of the Islamiy are 1,500,000. wár-disabled' pen«: to hold the European-record, Reuter,

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But even this group affect- ed by...

...the general declino in birth

A few years ago, the pro- vince of Carinthia ranked: first with 40 per cent of its children Miegitimate. But this total has redently, decreased -- to 29/- per the province of SATO

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