FRENCH ARMY.
QUALITY, IF NOT QUANTITY.
THE BIRTHRATE PROBLEM".
(Sydney " Sun's" Special Service.) •LONDON, April 25. Recognising that the country's birthrate fs.such as to preclude competition with tho Germans as f&r tis numerical strength is concerned, the French Got. eminent will probably'insert in its War Bill a provision that will aim at improving the quality of the army by having in it a, large proportion of seasoned crooks.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 2 May 1913, Page 7
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