Increase of Over One Million in Bight Years Manila, Aug. 8.
The population of the Philippine be|Islands on July 1, 1926, was 11- 568,494, according to figures compiled by the Philippine Health Ser-view.
This is an increase of 854 since 1918 when a census islands was taken, or increase of about ' 162,000, during the Inst eight years.
The city of Manila is credited with a population of 316,266, Cebu is the most, populous province with 950,495.—Reuter, Gen. Chang Tsai-yang, a former Civil Governor of Chekiang under Marshal Lu Yung-hsiang ang. now attached to the office of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, passed through Shanghai during the week-end on his way from Hangchow to Nanking. arch older is the Mongolian Min fry of Finance. Since the opening of this Bank mos of the Chi Private Banks in Mongolian had to close down as the Government int dilution gives much better terms to "The principal clients Soviet semi-Government enterprises, which, hanks to the facilities granted this Bank, are buying up all" the taw Mongolian exports, sch a Hides, wool, furs, and "sending it th either for' home consumption for export by the China and Amur Railways to Vladivostok. ruimber of imports from Russia are false finding their way into. Mongodbx. but the Russians have not got the monopoly of this trade simply because production in Russia. itself very limited, It is over s month azo that the general manager of the C. Emshanoff, handed in a report to the directors of the railway concerning the C. E.R. Sungari fle pointing out that as all vessels wer being forcibly laid up they were going to rot and run. So far the directors remained silent on the toater, simply bers use they cannot decide ' themselves, wither the consent of Muicden forthe tree navigation of'their fleet, seeing that the latter have decreed that only Chinese owned vessels can ply the river. Seeing that the leading Manchurian officials are financially interested in various steamship com-anies on the Sungari it is rather doubtful whether the C. E.R. steamers will ever ply ogam unless they are sold to purely Chinese, concerns. The value of the C, E.R. is put down at $500,000 and whilst they are idle it cost §150,000 a year for their looking after, besides 2 considerable sum for repairs.
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