Shanghai's population pressure will be published within the next two or three weeks. While it is primarily a directory of foreign Fesldents it would be incomplete without listing the principal Chinese aad their official and busi-hess connections, to which espe dal attention has been given in the forthcoming edition, The pheno menon of growth is. as ever. a matter of surprise, for, in spite of depression and ' unemployment, Shangha'e foreign population continues to Increese year by year, this year seeing another 70 ages added to the already bulky Hong Ulst. But that great changes have taken place apart {from this increase is indicated by the fact that about 40 per cent. of the last edition is corrected in apart from changes, in Tt Is up to the in accuracy, one of the I checks made being from the "North-China Dally News" subscribers' list of about 8,000 names. which records about 40 changes of address and new subscribers dally, "An interesting Addition 1 a lst of hotels, apar' ment and boarding houses, which will be of value both to the newcomer and to the old resident who Seeks change.
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