EUROPE'S DWINDLING POPULATIONS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2122, 1 May 1920, Page 2

EUROPE'S DWINDLING POPULATIONS.

THE populations of mo.vt of 11:t* Imllyereut countries of Europe have diminished enormously sines? 11)1-1. Cm;! Britain’s alone lias increased. Accordmy lo the latest (Miniates, the Tendon i )bscrvcr stnlas, Britain is nearly seven hundred thousand to (he pood, despiie the fact (hat duriny I lie wa r she !os| by the fall in births iiiioi’c than liaif a million potential • lives. Tlie figure.-, May mas! be regarded as approxiumPr —for lhe present year are : - 191-1, iff.:!). England C Waie> - bo.MiiMitvi- J57.50f).mH) FcoPand 4,717,1TT - 4,!)()(,'..o0') Ireland ... ■!,:>;■]] ,3!)f] MMSiMKH) (•CMbM-Ml -j-d.7b i-dinti tim many’.- p • pulaliou has decreased from sixiy-eiyfii u> sixty-llvc nulii,...n:s, a::a to-day her IVsuuUm cut-niiiiiia-r !mr nmics by nearly twomillions. The numbcT of children born <tunny ; !, c war hi Ormnny w.:s umaronc-f !iird P> one-half below the normal. A us! ria’s population Jms ovhriuik in much the same propop!;,a. cad Cm wo men great!;.' oulmccher the men, Vienna's inhabhacW, mice well over the two-million mark, are to-dav about !wo hundred timuurn hmow h. r i In g>vMm! ! < m of all. el' (■(nee ■?, is Turkey. Sham by the I 'race Treaty of the premier par; of her ir; rii erics, her population falls from thirty millions lo six. Tame is no doubt, 100, that Ciissia lias suffered very 'seriously in population, not only from tlie war, but from I lie bmp period of famine and tribal,i! ion which lias followed, ‘various ligares have been yven from 'hue to time of the decrease in Ihe popuiaiian of Pet impend and Moscow by persons who have compared the local conditions with those exist ivy duritay the war.