The Madison Courier · Madison, Indiana · 13 March 1923
CP-1923-001
Palestine Census Completed
The Associated Press, Jerusalem
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Transcribed from the clipping
“Palestine has a total population of 757,182, according to the figures of the census of three months ago. This figure equals approximately the population of the city of Boston as given by the official count in 1920. Ten per cent of the people in Palestine are given as Christian; 11 per cent as Jews, and 79 per cent—”
Context added by this archive
The whole question, answered by a news agency in 1923. Seven hundred and fifty-seven thousand, one hundred and eighty-two people, counted by the government that ran the place, and translated for American readers into a city they knew. The size of Boston.
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"Palestine Census Completed," The Madison Courier, 13 March 1923, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1923-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1923-001
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