c INFANT MORTALITY AMONG THE CENTRAL POWERS

Grey River Argus, 21 December 1916, Page 3

c INFANT MORTALITY AMONG THE CENTRAL POWERS

n LOSS THREATENS TO EQUAL c uso A THA T OF WAR o !*■' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) [ %\ LONDON, December 19. 11 ! The prodigious decline in the . birtl 1 rate in Austria and Germany 1 I arousing the. utmost anxiety. On l l Hungarian district had 170.000 Jartfo y annually, but owing to the drafting off of the males the birth rate ha 'averaged 10,000 for the past tW( 1-vSS. The loss of life threaten! Jo be equal to that of the battlefields The Dominions, of course have their own sneeial contingents, at the fron (remarks the 'Manchester Guardian ) and there is no -official Colonial Legion Tho casualty list sent out by the Wai Office the other day, however, suggest ed that it would have been possible t form such a Legion out of the men 0 the British race who have confe homi from far off countries to take thei xe'part in the conflict. On one singl ue page filled with names of those -W& ja- j had fallen were men who had left thei civilian posts at Trinidad, in the Wes Lidics, and Ceylon in the East, Boks burg in the Transvaal, and Perth an Melbourne in Australia, Alexandria 1 Egypt, Malta, and three different ph ces in the State of Massachusetts. O -p the pages giving the names of the wou ded in the same regiments there a] 1 pcared among the places from whic es - the men had come TJitenhage in Car lye Colony Kurrie Kurrie in Australi eth Bilbao in Spain, British Guiana # Sha out Bombay, Buenos Aires, Swift Oi .font (Canada), Calgary, Illinois, Joha ma Inesburg, Nova Scotia and Paragua; to Most of them belonged to the Eoy low 'Fusiliers, and in allprobability thi ira- had made straight for London witho are' a , thought of any particular regime oss in their heads, and so had been dral "■ ed to that corps by the recruiting 01 ~ cer. . : . - ■ lot ■ . . ■ .'• JJJo The new ready-to-wear and moc "*! hats are to be found at W. McX V^ 'and Son's. Ready-to-wears in browr '■. 'tuscan. white, vieux rose. etc. 10s in j ns 6d. -16s 6d«. London and Pans n* t0 del hats 22s 6d, 27s 6d, 30s. You co1 ' find the most up-to-date goods i a rom showing at W. McKay and Son, lea ary j n g drapers, Greymouth and tioki ka.— : Advt. .1