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Show Britain Increases Pensions. London. A white paper will be issued is-sued announcing a substantial increase in-crease in the pensions for disabled soldiers, but it will not concede 1 weekly, which has been asked. The childless widow will receive Ts 6d weekly and may qualify for an old age pension. The additional pension for a first child is 5s weekly and a half-crdwn each week for the next three. For the fifth child and onward 2s each is allowed weekly. Thus a widow with five children would get 2"s each week. When the name of a new town that's spelled cliicfly with consonants bobs up in the press dispatches, what can a harassed teli'grapli editor do hilt shut his eyes and hope for tho be..t?v |