MASS MARRIAGES
ITALIAN COUPLES NEARLY THREE THOUSAND. ROME, October 30. The mass weddings totalled 2800, and each couple received a 1000 lire bank note, appropriately drawn from the coffers of. the bachelor tax, which Signor Mussolini will probably increase next year. A previous message read; —Outdoing the German mass marriages of last July, the Fascists, who are alarmed at the continual decline in the birth rate, have organised a festival of marriage, in which 2000 couples are being wed at dawn, afterwards attending mass, then holding a procession through the city streets.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22099, 1 November 1933, Page 7
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92MASS MARRIAGES Otago Daily Times, Issue 22099, 1 November 1933, Page 7
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