Paris, May 15.
Speaking yesterday at a Republican meeting in Lyons, the French right wing deputy, M. Burgot clared the decrease of the French population was simply catastrophic. He mentioned figures showing 1,034,- 000 births in 1876 and 616000 in 1938.
Since 1935, M. Burgot added, there had been more deaths than births in France.
In 1938 there had been 43,000 more coffins than cradles, To every 300 French children, 700 German children were born.
M. Burgot pointed out that at that rate France's population in $50 years will have dropped from 42,000,000 to 29,000,000.—Trans-Ocean, success without the full and intelligent ce-operation of the people concerned:
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