WORLD DOMINION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 15, 13 October 1919, Page 5

WORLD DOMINION

! GOING FROM WEST TO EAST RESULT OF,RESTRICTING THE BIRTH-RATE By TelegraDh—Press Association—Oonvrlriil (Rec. October 12, 5.5 p.m.) '■ London, October 11. Sir Rider Haggard, giving evidence be- , fore the Birth-rate Commission, said that within the next two centuries tlie Western races would cease to .hold the dominion of the world. The teeming millions in the East are now learning tlio arts of war. All the Western races, also the American, were rcstricing the birth-rate. Extensive settlement on the land would mitigate the evil. English and Australian experience had shown that people prefer to live in-cities. Sir Rider Haggard suggests that an appeal should be made through the newspapers 'to the women to save the Empire. The State, , as .a last desperate resort, might undertake the upbringing of all children. Indications, he said, pointed -to a decrease in the population of Britrtin, which undoubtedly would be much more comfortable with a population of four millions, but fiucli a smaH popuilfltion would bo easily defeated in war— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.