To the Editor of the "Nonti-untwa Dary News" into a the political ai preciations—erroneows in my personal opinion—that the Madi correspondent of the Reuter's Agency expresses in the cables Published in today's issue of your esteemed daily, I hope to be. allowed, nevertheless, to rectify some points which are in utter contradiction with the truth, such as it appears in official statistics, in eaves, and. in others, from data inserted in your own publica tion in connection wi the last lection Secently held in Spain, Tu the first place, it is not exact, jas it is lightly stated -in the said dispatch that 52 per cent. of the Spanish population are illiterate. The percentage docs not reach one half Of that figure in. those few zones of greater analphabetism, and the rest of them the proportion Ielow 10 per cent. It is to be noted that ina litle over two years and thousands of new schools have of Republican" regime, _thougands
been created, aiming to attain the number of 20.000 proposed by the er of. Publig Instruction March, 1052." Current legislation compels the Municipalities to contribute with a 25 per cent. of th yearly budget to that purpose, Some voluntarily offered as high as 60 per cent. This spontaneous impulse of the Municipalities show Row keen is the desire to promote Scholar canteens and distribution of clothes to students have in-teased 950 per cent. in recent times. Gifts of books made
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