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Show FRANCE TO LIMIT SALE OF LIQUORS ' Deputies will begin today the discus-slon discus-slon of the bill to limit the number j of bars, saloons and other establish- I ments for the sale of distilled spirits, j which already has passed the senate. The nu-asure fixes the number of bars at one per two hundred inhabitants. inhabi-tants. Deputy Jules Seigfried. a former senator and ex-minister of commerce in a report on the bill declares that the consumption of alcohol has made appalling strides in the last half cetv tury and now averages five litres (5.3 quarts) of pure spirit per head of the population, which is equal to thirteen litres of the liquor of com merce There Is one bar in France for every ev-ery S2 inhabitants, as compared with one In 380 in the United States, one In 430 in England, one In T.000 in Sweden and one In 9000 in Norway. The effect of the bill will be gradually grad-ually to reduce the number of bars !n Prance from 480,000 to approxl uiately 200,000. |