Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1911 — Illiterates In Fernch Army. [ARTICLE]

Illiterates In Fernch Army.

Although the Oerman army shows a considerably smaller percentage of recruits who are unnble to read or write than the French army, still, according to figures Just Issued, the larger number of illiterates in the army of the republic come from the districts along the Oerman frontier, pist October, of 847,028 men called up, 14,225. about 5.76 per oent, could not read or write, and from the government ctf Paris there were altogether only 220 Illiterate recruits.