Speculation on the movement of 'Shanghai's population since the hostilities is often being made, Where now. is' the immense community' which lived a year ago in Hongkew and Yangtszepoo? Have they been absorbed in the Foreign Settlements gone elsewhere 'Though this question applies in greater measure to the Chinese, the foreign population of Hongkew' and Yangtszepoo was probably in the same proportion to the Chinese as in the Central and Western areas of Shanghai. An analysis of our cirulation, therefore, which is both.
reign and Chinese, throws much light on this interesting inquiry. The} following are comparisons of the distribution of the "North-China Daily News" in Shanghai made between one day this week and the same day last year, 'These figures show a greater umber of copies sold in Shanghai' this year than last, in spite of the number of foreigners and Chinese who have left the city during the hostilities; so that an even greater number must be making Shanghai their temporary home, This borne out by the lack of housing facilities, both for foreigners. and Chinese," within the perimeter oc~ cupied by the Japanese.
Tt is hardly necessar the circulation of the "North-China [Dally News" in the interior of China has diminished. Our last year's elreulation of 2000 copies mailed to Outports and Manchuria has now been halved, not only because of the general evacua-lion but because of postal and other difficulties to which there appears to be no immediate solution, Area 2068 2623 555
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