Show A INHABITANTS fa W us Taken Outside o or of Mongolia and IJ II I- I I I J I INGTON Dec 15 The The Chinese Wee Tice Ice has lately collected figures or administrative I republic and from these has an estimate of population I though r-though thou h only an approximation the most rella reliable le inMon in- in Mon to be had on the subject The 00 of or China has become a fa- fa f expression adding force to many Foment ment nt and emotion to many an apI ap ap- I interesting fc to note that the ex- ex n has bas the figures of or the postoffice t G R n as well ell as the sanction of pond good I usage to back it up ine returns which were obtained through the postmasters i of the various hsien were much more nearly complete than might have been expected ex ex- expected I erTa f cf dex In so large and disorganized O i a country Mongolia and Tibet were excluded excluded ex ex- eluded entirely be des which the only exceptions from the estimate were one in the Pekin district and three in to Manchuria With these exceptions the postoffice figures put the total population population population tion of China at 14 China has never had haa a census of or the Western Vestern sort and consequently estimates of population have varied widely The TheBO Theeo BO so called census taken by the ministry of the Interior u in 1919 1119 fur- fur figures which have been regarded I as the most reliable With few few exceptions I I tl ns however families were counted and i inot not individuals and an average was carefully carefully carefully care care- fully worked out for the sake of arriving at the approximate number of persons The multiple was as 55 5 55 5 except for the province of in Manchuria where it was set at 8 33 per family Thus the total population of the eighteen eight eight- een provinces of China proper and md the three Eastern provinces of Manchuria was calculated at When Tibet the dep dependencies and the Manchu military organization were counted in In the number was brought to Th B aa IIA n bv hv th th estimate for tor the various vanous provinces look like tike those of important Ind independent pendent states rather than only parts of one vas vast republic Pop Pe Per Province Total Pop Sq faq M M. 19 Chihli 29 Honan H Hunan nan 28 44 S 2 5 47 su Klang-su 81 r. r 11 Shansi Shantung 30 SOS R rn 3 9 g 49 22 61 67 Manchuria 13 37 27 SIT The postoffice estimate stina gives s so some I startling statistics on density of population tion Shantung has ha generally been regarded re regarded regarded re- re as the most crowded being so I listed by the census The postoffice estimate however puts the province of in the lead with 87 to the square mile while stands second with and Shantung third with Hereafter when the Idea of density of pO population is to bee bez be I emphasized z doubtless will VIII be gln s referred e to Instead of Belgium |