ITALY'S BIRTH-RATE
CONSIDERABLE DECLINE
PRIME MINISTER'S CONCERN APPEAL BY HIS NEWSPAPER FATHERLAND'S HANDICAP By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received February 8. 5.5 p.m.) ROME. Feb. 7 The concern of the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, over the decline of the birth-rate in Italy is evidenced by the vigorous appeal made by his newspaper, II Popolo d'ltalia, which asks : " Who is going to drink the milk supplied by the farmers if there are no babies 1 Two and a-half million have failed to be born in the last 12 years. This means a gap in our manhood four times as great as our loss in the Great War. "The Fatherland has been cheated of one million future soldiers and every branch of industry is suffering from the low birth-rate."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 13
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125ITALY'S BIRTH-RATE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 13
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