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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2959, 23 December 1916, Page 12

Germany is commonly regarded as a country in which, before the .war, population was advancing by leaps and bounds, but in a book entitled "Mora Coffins than Cradles I" Pastor Edmund ltreuscTi, of Karlsruhe, avers that she is threatened with tho doom and shame of a falling birth-rate. He gives somo interesting figures to show that Germany really is in danger of having inoro coffins than cradles per annum. Her most fruitful decade was that ending in 1880, when the average birthrate per thousand was 39. By 1910 this had fallen to 29.8. For the decade ending 1900 there were 8.5 marriages tor every thousand of the population, but in 1910 it was a fraction over 7, so that before the war .there had been a decrease of marriages and of births. Tho question of replacing the fathers of tho future who have fallen in this war is a veritable nightmaro to the reverend gentleman.