Chinese Appreciate the Pri ciples for Taking It The census of the population of the Municipality of Greater Shanghai which is being taken by the Bureau of Public Safety is now Practically completed and officials of the Bureau are busily engaged in preparing statistics, which will be made public next month.
Work in this connection has been completed so far as purely Chinese territory is concerned, but there still remains some difficulty facing the Bureau of Public Safety in taking a census of foreigners living in Chinese territory, and of Chinese whose homes are on the Municipal roads in the territory of the Municipality.
On Friday, September 14, the "North-China Daily News" published the following statement:
A letter was sent to the Muniipality of Greater Shanghai. yesterday by the Stunicipal Council of the. International Settlement, saying that the intter ean-Bot consent to officials of the Chinese Municipality taking a census of residents on tmunicipsl roads outside the Settlement, "The Couneit are, however, quite willie to: take the census then: nationals who live in Chinese eapeory forsaking the send ut of their senpective
sway from Council roads and. will Me municipality' of Greater of the result, Misunderstandings Which Prev In the course of an interview-with a representative of this paper fon Sept. 20, Col, Taj Shih-fu, Commissioner of Public Safety, sai that the Municipality had received. no such letter from the Shanghai Municipal Council.
Col, Tai admitted that certain misunderstandings prevailed which prevented the Chinese authorities from taking the census of residents. fon municipal roads outside the: Settlement. This was very unfortunate, he said, because it was the sincere hope of the Municipality, in taking the census, to make it of benefit to all foreigners and Chinese living in Chinese territory.
We, want to protect foreigners who plice their confidence in us by living in Chinese territory and that is the reason why we are taking the census, We have absolutely no ulterior motives, We appeal to the foreigners resident in Chinese territory to ce-operate with us and assist us because we must know how many foreigners and which forei ers are living within the Municipality in order to offer them full protection. There is, in my opinion, absolutely no ground for any opposi tion. We are simply adopting the, same methods as were adopted in former days. A census is taken in all foreign countries, and for that Yeason the Government knows. exactly what shall be done to. protect the residents. It is our aim to take the census so that we can be of similar service. We already know the number of foreign residents in Chinese territory, but the census simply to confirm ouy records. If foreigners do not ce-operate with us, how can they expect us to accord them proper protection?"
A Method of Protection Col, Tai said that the Chinese residents now understood the meaning of Ube census and they realized its importance more than they ever did before, They knew that by giving the proper information, they. would be protecting themselves. and ould be. assisting the authorities, They know that it was the aim of the authorities to comb Shanghai of greatly satisfied," the Commissioner remarked, "with what already has been done. "The census. 80 far, has been very successful and the results, T am sure, will be excel-Ay Col. Tai said in conclusion that he expected that the work would be completed by the end of the present month and that full statistics would be published early in October.
Population of Chekiang Not Quite 20 Millions Hangchow, Sept. 20.
According to a recent census report compiled by the Provincial Civil AMfairs Department for, Chekiang, the population of Chekiarg province numbers 19,044,851, of whom 11, 227,370 are' males and females—Kno
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