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Show HEAVY LOSS IN RUSSIAN CENSUS Tremendous Shrinkage in Population Indicated By Late Figures WASHINGTON. Fob. 25 (By tho Associated Press) Reports Or tre-j mendOua shrinkages In the population of Russia since the world war appear, to be born cut in official figures on' tho hint Russian census prepared for the league of nations In connection with Its health work and received here j Friday Mi.ro than 8.000.000 persons Included In the annual estimate of: population made In 1 9 1 C were found to be non-exlatant at the time oC the, census Initiated In August ,iy20, the first complete enumeration of the whole of Rur-sia since 1897 ONE CITY GROWS The most striking decreases In population pop-ulation the report states were In the, cities. Contrary to the experiences In western Europe, whore war Industries j tended to Increase the urban concen I trntlon of population, the report show i that with one exception the more Important Im-portant pitied of Russia suffered heavy) losses in the number of Inhabitants In thp tiCkrWk.l h ft f Quo n 1 C 1 1 TnH lhn MMa of the census. Petrdffrad showed a decline In population popu-lation from 2,111,000 In 1913 to 706.-' 000 In 1920; Moscow, reporting a pop-! ulutlon of 1.U28.U00 in 1920, showed a' loss of 789.000 inhabitants since 1913 and the single exception where the urban ur-ban population had increased was' Samara; reporting 171,000 In ugalnst 1 44.UH0 in 1913. DBFFIC1 bill s (,rit Civil war and lack of paper delayed; the taking of the census for nearly two yours and even then it uas found possible to enumerate the citizens in1 only 68 governments because of war operations in 13 other goernmcnts. Extreme difficulties were encounter- ! ed In making tho enumeration, tho report re-port shows. In the trans-Cashlan pro!ncei the census could not bo car- i rled to completion because a suffl-i elent numfber of camels could not be obtained for transporting the enumerators. |