Are the Chinese women shirking Canton" to avoid the Kuomintang rule these days? According to police statistics given out early 1025, the population of Canton, as Jcompiled by police officers from 13 districts into which the city has been divided, is 866,521, some 53 020 are mon, while 334,601, women. The population of Canton as reported by the police 1921, then composed of only 12 districts, was 790,035, some 451,939, being men and 338,096, women. The number of women in Canton City four years ago was 3,595 greater than Nat given this year, TI is general ly understood that the population of Canton is always much greater than that given by the police, as a large section of the community has no permanent abode and many firms and shops as well as families, for various reasons, would never fill in the names, of all persons within their households. Altogether about 60 tow-boats ard 90 small steamers with passengers aswell freight call on Canton daily non-resident population which one may easily notice when walking the crowded streets of this city.
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