MAN-POWER IN FRANCE
"For the first time since the war the French are publishing tlio statistics 'of births and deaths from natural causes," says the "Manchester Guardian." "Those 'relating to the seventy-seven departments which were not the scene of military operations show that in 1913 there were 601,811 births and 587,4*5" death's, as against 313,310 births and 613,348 deaths in 1917. ■ ;" •:; "It will be seen'that the births fell by, 2<i0,000 and the death's rose by 26,000. In tlio years. 1914-17' tho deaths among civilians in fiiis area , exceeded the births by 881,000. Add 1,400,000 killed in the war and make an allowance for the eleven invaded .departments. . Now, these figures are not curiosities; they are important political facts. The population of France is alrea'dv less than (hat of Italy, and the Italian is growing. How can France maintain the balance of power? " "The better minds of France see that the League of Nations can 'give her, situated as she is, a security with which the balance of powerxan only mock her, They self that no country has more to gain from a League of' Nations, than France." ■
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 174, 17 April 1919, Page 7
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187MAN-POWER IN FRANCE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 174, 17 April 1919, Page 7
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