Over 1,500,000 Outside: Whole District Nearly 3,000,000
According to the Chinese press, the const: s of Shanghai has been completed by the Bureau of Public Safety and is us follows:—Total population of the whole area is 2/126,046 of whom.47,760 are foreigners, This, however, is partly based on the figures of population not in Chinese territory as given im Inst year's Municipal Report, By the Chinese census just taken Greater Shanghai has a population of 1,503,970 Chinese and 8,383 foreigners.
For purposes of comparison, it la interesting to record the figures og set out in Municipal Report 1927 which are as follows:
Witha Hinits Oulsde Linits Fotah Foreign, 23,800. sao, Chisose 812.075
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.