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Show POPULATION OF ITALY LOSES BY EMIGRATION ROME, Feb. 14. Recent statistics having shown that Italy's population for -the last five years has been gradually grad-ually decreasing owing to emigration, the Government has decided to adopt restrictive measures. It has been found that in several of the provinces which furnish the greater number of emigrants emi-grants the deaths already outnumber the births. Ia other provinces the pop-' pop-' illation is found to be stationary. The lak of laborers is felt everywhere 1 1 ""ogbout the country. The Govern-rr. Govern-rr. rt has hitherto encouraged emigra-tif |