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Show FALL IN EUROPE'S POPULATION i I Estimated Loss Through Years of Wan Will Reach Total of Thlrty-Flvo I Million People. According to a report mndo by Uio Society for tho Study of tho Soclnl I Consequences of tho Wnr, which hns Its headquarters nt Copenhagen, between be-tween tho outbreak of thnt conflict nnd tho middle of 1010 Europo lost nbout 85,000,000 people. Of this deflclt In what would havo been tho normal population pop-ulation of the continent nt the latter dato 20,000,000 nro accounted for by tho decline In tho birth rato nnd 10,-000,000 10,-000,000 by Increased mortnllty Including Includ-ing nearly 10,000,000 killed In bnttle. The surplus of tho female sex In Europe has nearly tripled, rising from slightly moro thnn 5,000,000 to 15.000,-000. 15.000,-000. Russia and Poland suffered totnl losses of 1.1,000,000; Germany and Austria Aus-tria together slightly lesa thnn thnt number; Franco comes next with nn estimated loss of 3,310,000; Italy follows fol-lows with 2,280,000; Great Britain nnd Irelnnd lost nbout 1,185,000, nnd llttlo Sorbin, Including wnr casualties, np-. np-. pruachlng those of tho United Kingdom, King-dom, loft l.CoO.OOO. Living Ago. |