The Archive · 1933

SHANGHAI'S POPULATION

cluding the Greater. Shanghai are The population of Shanghai, inthe International Settlement and French Concession, totals 8,249,152, according to statistics compiled up to the end of 1932 by the Greater Shanghai Municipality. This figure shows an increase over that of last August b= about 170,000. 'The Chinese population totals' 3,183,818, The Japanese number, 26,762, not including Koreans and Formosans who number 1,204 and 481 res Paris, Feb, 4, Press reports state that ride ation comprising the merican writer Theodore Dreiser, the French author Henri Barbusse, English trade union lender ex ander Gossip, the German Pacifist General von Schoenaich and the German Communist leader Muenzenberg, will in the middle of March proceed via Berlin to Man-chain to, report on the stale, of will proceed to Shanghai to parti-scene, Afterwards" they cipate in the anti-war congress tive-ly. Other" nationalities total w ich, it is stated, is now being 36,887, according to the Kuo Min News Agency. organised by Madame Sun Yat-sen Ocean Kuo-Min,

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