Show I According to the latest official returns the number of ot Inhabitants of ot China proper Manchuria and the new do dominion dominion dominion do- do minion Is And as we e have pointed out before observes observe the National Review China the estimates of China i s a population have ha had a tend tendency nc to exaggeration and ev n if t ten n million be c added on for Mongolia and Tibet the total Is far below that usually quoted In 1904 air Mr then United Stat States s minister in Pekin after careful inquiry inquI tame came to the conclusion that the number of inhabitants of China prop proper r was ably abl ablIt'S ItS ions than That would make the total population of the empire something slightly s under If H something be allowed for natural In Increase Increase Increase In- In crease since that time it does dou not seem eem as If IC tim the of the latest census on the side Ide of understatement London Globe |