PRICE OF PEACE
WHAT IT COSTS FRANCE WIDOWS AND PENSIONERS. (Received 10.30 a.m.) United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, December 27. Two million five hundred thousand persons, or more than per cent of the population of France, are still pensioners. Of these 625,000 are widows owing to the war, and there the nearly one million disabled soldiers and sailors.
The Parliamentary vote in 1929 will be for £42,000,000. Widows are to receive 240 s annually, plus 140 s per child. _ A Bill is being introduced into the Chamber of Deputies presuming 400,000 of the wartime missing are dead, ami also providing that in future wars those missing for two years shall legally be regarded as dead, and their wives eligible to remarry. —Australian Press Assn.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11028, 28 December 1928, Page 6
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