Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-11-07 | Page 18 | French Population Reduced is Report

i FRENCH POPULATION REDUCED IS REPORT PARIS Nov 7 A A continued shrinkage of ot the population of or France Is shown bythe by the vital vita statistics of the republic for forthe forthe forthe the year jear 1918 which have ha just appeared I Without counting the war losses the French nation numbers less than thanIn I In 1917 These figures affect only the seventy seventy seven seven departments of ot France Trance which were not In enemy occupation They are the excess of or deaths over births The decline Is attributed mainly to the ravages of ot th the Influenza epidemic In the latter halt half of 1918 from which It Is computed computed com com- about persons died Compared with 1917 there Was waa an In Increase Increase In- In crease crease- In marriages of 19 but the number of divorces also rose from to