Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-16 | Page 19 | Palestine Population About Equal to Boston

I I Palestine Population About Equal to Boston JERUSALEM I March 16 Pales Pales tine tie ti- ti e haac has a d total population tl of 1 according O to the figures fg e of f of the census of or three months ago r This s figure lff equals Q lhea approximately the sp p population I io of the city ot of T Boston Bos Bos- ton as given m n by the official count In 1920 Ten per cent of the people people peo peo- pie In Palestine are given even Iven as Christian Chris Chrls- tian 11 per cent as Jews Jews and 79 per perCent percent percent cent as The figures for Christians and 01 Jewa ewa are regarded regarded re re- re here as about correct but there was such stron strong opposition to the census on the part of the Mo Mo- Io- Io that their number probably probably abl ably i Is considerably o rife rifer r underestimated U la In two titles cities only ry is there a pre pre- i Jewish Je population Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerus Jerus- alem ulem and In the former out of or a 1 total of or OO 4 are descended from Abraham and the balance are about equally divided between the followers of or Jesus and ana the prophet of Mecca le lehem It is l interesting Is ti the ony only fl to town note v el in that hf the Bethlehem Beth Beth- Bethlehem land landIn d dIn In which Christians Christians predominate Here there are of or this faith and two Jews Nazareth Nazareth Nazareth Na Na- zareth has a population of of r tian which one third roughly l two thirds Moslem and are only Christian Christian Chris Chris- 63 Jews Jewa The principal seaport Jaffa has about t 47 people of whom there rea are or 2 each gp of oil ei Jews and and about Christians The other large centers of population are very largely Mo Mo- The Palestine Weekly a Zionist or organ aD a.D. claims ms that according to Roman Ro- Ro man f this country has supported supported supported sup sup- ported a population of or but when one considers that the area of ot Palestine is about equal to that of or Vermont and that it lt has about an equal amount of t arable land one questions e g ls seriously I I whether rl with h the highest development of her natural resources It will be possible for Palestine ever to support a greatly augmented po population Vermont Yermont in I 1920 counted people within the state