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Show Educating Cubans, Washington Nearly 57 per cent or tho population ot Cuba nt least ten years old can read, the porcoutago' m tho large cities bolug 82.0, and In tho rest or the island 47.9, according to (lgurc obtulnod in tho census recont-y recont-y taken. This census Hhpws that In 1907 almost one-third or the children hvoro attending school, ns compared ivlth lesa than onc-elxth In 1895. lie-Iwcenaga lie-Iwcenaga nnd 1907 tho population of tno Jslaud' Increased rrom 1,572,797 to 2,018,980, or moro than 30 per cent |