GERMAN BIRTH RATE
(Own Correspondent —Bv Air Mail) LONDON, Oct. 22.
Satisfaction is expressed in the German Press at the birth-rate figures for 1935, wliieh show an average of 18.9 per 1000 for the whole of tho Reich. It is pointed out that last year 63,000 more children wero born than in 1934, a year which itself showed an excess of 227,060 over 1933.
The large increase in 1931 was mainly duo to the granting of dowries to brides, introduced by Herr Hitler when he assumed office.
The German Presß contrasts these figures with those of other countries, especially Franco and Great Britain,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 290, 8 December 1936, Page 9
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