of work, which might well novel way of d
ed elsewhere, They are di "unemployed" and idlers", the former being those thrown out, of while the "'idlers" are beggars, tramps, loafers and others who have never learned a trade and do not desire to earn an honest living. A lange proportion of these are ex-soldiers, The latest statistics just issued on the matter are startling. They show 16,516 men and 1,342 women "unemployed" and no less than 69,- 829 of both sexes but mostly men '"idlers", thus making a total of over 87,000 adults out of work in China's former capital.
As the total population is about a million, the workless represent n about one-fifth of ths adults of th cits. This great army of unemploy ables is likely to prove a serious menace before long.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.