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Show uu PRUSSIA HOLDS LEAD OVER FRANCE IN POPULATION (By International News Service.) Paris, France continued to fall behind be-hind Prussia in population during the Avar, according to figures furnished by the National Alliance for the growth1 of the French population, i In the years 1ST5-76, when the first j census after the Franco-Prussian war . - . ii i laEHMJ was taken in each country, Franco 'Lm surpassed Prussia in population by more than 11,000,000. The low French 5 birth rate enabled Prussia to gain so t rapidly that Prussia had passed Franca several hundred thousand when the world' war broke ouL il During the war the population of France diminished by 973,-MO. while ULu .that of Prussia diminished by only ! |