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IF YOU ARE TOO BUSY TO WRITE HOME DONT
Just Post a Copy of the Overland China Mail
THE CHINA MAIL SEPTEMBER 6 1937
WORLD'S DRIFT TO
TOWNS
LONDON, SATURDAY. IN THE GEOGRAPHY SEC- TION OF THE BRITISH AS SOCIATION MEETING AT NOTTINGHAM, PROFESSOR FAWCETT OF LONDON DIS CUSSED. THE CHANGING DISTRIBUTION OF POPULA-
{TION.
-World average density he said, was 40 persons per square mile, and this density was exceeded only in Europe, Eastern and North America, the Far East and India with Ceylon
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In these four regions, three fourths of the world's present es- timated population of 2,000,000,-| 1000 was to be found on little more than one-eighth of the total land area.
During the twentieth century the area of inhabited lands on the margins of all four major popul- ous regions had been increasing, and in North America this move- ment had perhaps overshot the cli- matic limits of good
| Dands.
INDIA EXPANSION
India had made real expansion on newly-irrigated lands in India's valley.
Thirty millions and more ofį Chinese had pushed into Manchu- kno and Inner Mongolia in the greatest of recent migrations.
There had also been an eastward colonisation of Western Siberia from Russia extending almost to
ake Baikal, which amounted pos- sibly to 2,000,000.
Something New
Spun glass, mer than the finest silk, is the latest for women's neg- ligees. Miss Priscilla Kelly is dis- playing a soft fuffy creation at Boston's ready-to-wear show where, progress in dressmaking field is dis played anmaliy.
Party Fusion Hitch
Paris, Saturday..
The desire of the French Com- munist Party to hasten the
pro Socialists
The net effect of the great migrations of the 19th and 20th centuries had not tended to spread the population more evenly overjected fusion with the the earth or to fill up the great open is evidenced by a letter addressed- spaces but only to accentuate the by the Secretary of the Com- crowding of mankind into already munist Party to the Socialist populous lands.
executive, expressing the wish
as soon as possible and proposing that fusion should b
completed
that the Committee of Union should be convened for Tuesday..
Prof. Fawcett dealt very fully with the marked and growing con- centration of populations in urban areas and great cities of the world
DRIFT TO TOWNS
This drift, to towns, he said, was universal in countries affected by modern Western civilisation.
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Socialist circles, however, de- clare there is no need for hurry, since the Third International has far furnished no adequate guarantee that in the event of formation of a United Labour Party, the Socialist Party would
Between 1921 and 1931 the pro retain its individuality Trans portional increase in the London Ocean.
area was more than double the
rate of increase for Great Britam. The number of these "million
cities" and of their inhabitants M
was increasing so that in two or three generations, if the tendency was not checked, the majority of mankind might be found living in from 200 to 300 such concentra tions-British Wireless.
NATIONALISATION OF ARMAMENTS
The
1 will
has
for September
expropriated
new
Saturday
MASARYK NOW IMPROVING
Prgué, Saturday.
The condition of M. Thomas Masaryk, the 88-year-old former President of Czecho Slovakia, has undergone a slight improve-
ment, says a bulletin, and there making a good recovery.
is some hope for the patient
Masaryk was suddenly taken ill a few days ago at his country
whole of Czecho-Slovakia owing, his progress.
concern
said for his