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Show GREAT RUSS CITIES DECLINE IN SIZE WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. The population popu-lation vt I'etrograd and Moscow In soviet Russia has greatly decreased, according to Russian newspaper dispatches dis-patches to the state department. ' j The population of IVtrog-rad Is 706,-000, 706,-000, 71 per cent less than In 1817, and in Moscow the population has dropped to 1,015.000. about &0 per cent less. The death rate, the dispatches said. In Moscow has increased .from t per thousand thou-sand in 1918 to VI p-r thousand last 'year, while In I'etrograd the death rate was 2 times as great as In Moscow. The birth fate has also fallen, despite increased marriages, j The reports said that about three-i three-i fourths of the workers in Russia now : were wmen. a1 mn snd children. |