THE CHINA
DYING TOWNS OF
The
BRITAIN
alive to-day
To-day.
people
to see the
population of Britain decline
nine-tenths. They will
country of dying towns buildings and “almost silent dustry.
This is one of the startling com clusions which emerge from pre- liminary surveys of the falling
POLAND LOOKS TO HER
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CHANGES IN
birth-rate made by the Population RED ARMY
Investigation Committee says a Trans-Ocean message.
COMMAND
Moscow, To-day.
In their first report on the scope of the inquiry Dr. C. P. Blacker, secretary, and Mr. D. V. Glass, research secretary, compare England to a school in which the leaving age has been suddenly
General Kashirin, commander of raised and the numbers temporari the Caucasian military district and ly increased Medical science is one of the eight judges in the recent giving to the aged and middle-trial of Marshal Tukhachevsky and aged an extra span of life. For the the seven other Soviet generals who moment, although birth rate de creases, the population does not decline, but by 1940 at the latest, unless drastic changes in fertility occur, the fill must
Two important changes in the High Command of the Red Army are announced.
COMME
MATE
were subsequently executed, has been transferred to an unstated post-
He will be replaced by General Timoshenko, a representative of the new school of Red Army officers.
Of peasant origin, he rose from the ranks of the Czarist Army and became a general during the civil
On the assumption that recent war. He helped to organise Mar- trends in birth and death rates shal Budenny's Red Cavalry Divi- will continue, they give these sions Reuter estimates of the future popula
tion of England and Wales:
1940: 40,655,000.
1960: 37,441,000.
1980: 28,857,000.
2000: 17,685,000 2020:- 8,563,000. 2035: 4,426.000.
Even these figures do not--re- présent the full extent of the pro- blem.
PACIFIC
PARADISE
NOT SO PACIFIC
"It is by no means impossible,”
London, To-day. the committee point out, that and Europeans occurred in
Shight clashes between natives. people will have fewer children town of Vaimoso, on the island of the than has been estimated. A per Samoa yesterday as the result of fect birth control method may be failure by the latter to show due discovered which may abolish the observance to native customs dr unwanted child.
Jing the course of a religious
festival
Every possible line of inquiry
The Samoans objected to seeing will be pursued by the committee. They will investigate medical, so the scene of the religions festival some of the Europeans, passing by, cial, economic and-psychological aspects of the problem. Existing they should disno za
on bicycles and demanded that statistics are already being Some trouble aro analysed. Material is being col- proceeded to take lected from the personal experi-their own hands, and to drag the ences of doctors and social work-cyclists off their machines.-Trans- ers, while at a later stage care Ocean. fully planned questionnaire will be
filled in for as many families as possible.
SOCIAL UPHEAVAL
Dr. Blacker believes that ents who decline to have children
when they matters into
Anglo-Batavian Society
London, To-day.
because of the possibility of war, The Connell of the Anglo-Bata slumps and social upheaval, are vian Society on Saturday uo- still rare, but that their number animously elected the retiring Ne- will increase if conditions growtherlands Minister in London,
worse.
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