PENSIONS IN FRANCE
A HUGE TOTAL BILL REGARDING WARTIME MISSING Press Association—By Telegraph—Copy^hi PARlS,’December 27. (Received December 23, at 10.30 a.m.) 1 Altogether 2,500,000 persons, or more than (T per cent, of the population of Prance, are still pensioners. 01 these 625.000 are widows owing to the war, and there are nearly 1.000,000 disabled soldiers and sailors. The P ! '''U ainel )*;” ary vote in 1920 will be for £42.000,000. Widows are to receive 240 s annually, pins 140 s per child. A Bill is being introduced into the Chamber of Deputies presuming that 400.000 of the war-time missing aro dead, and also providing that in luturo wars those missing for two years shall legally be regarded as dead and their wives" eligible to remarry.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20060, 28 December 1928, Page 6
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126PENSIONS IN FRANCE Evening Star, Issue 20060, 28 December 1928, Page 6
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