Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1920 — PETROGRAD POPULATION CUT [ARTICLE]

PETROGRAD POPULATION CUT

Loses 71 Per Cent Since 1914; Moscow Loss 45 Per Cent, Census Shows. Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 6. —Preliminary returns of the Russian census show decreases in, the population of more than 10 per cent compared with 1914, due to epidemics and war losses. Moscow’s population has dropped 45 per cent and that .of Petrograd 71 per cent.