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FIGURES BY CENSUS
SHOW GREAT EXODUS
Nearly Two Million Fewer Foreign
Born In United Ststes-Ger-
" many At Top in Number
= --. Int.

Washington, April 26.-Germany,
Austria, Ireland and Russia, natives
Of which made up more than SO per
cent. OF the country's total foreign
bern population ten years ago,
showed heavy losses in the number
Of their natives in the United States
during the last ten years, census
Aureau statistics show, These losses
sEEregate almost 100000 and are
Believed to have been due largely to
sAe world war, with its consequent
exodus of belligerent nationals, and
she stoppage Of immigration. a..
German born showed a loss Of
S1s.0S5, Austrian born a loss of
soo,e14, Irish born a loss Of $685.
lbs. While Germany, had the largest
Isss numerically, Austria's loss was
relatively the largest, having been
more than so per cent.
Notwithstanding those heavy loss
es the country's total foreign born
pspulation, as just announced by
de bureau of census in a prelimi-
nary statement prepared for the
early use of congress, showed an in
srease of 358,442 Of 2.6 per cent,
tie total number Of foreign born be-
ing Is, 7O3,9s7. The Increase is be-
hrved to have been the smallest both
IN number and percentage, ever re-
esrded for any decade. In the pre-
vious decade, 10000, the increase
was S,174,610, or 2o.7 per cent.
Germany in Lead.
Germany lead as the country of
BIFth of the foreign born in the
United States ten years ago with a
tstal Of more than 100000 and
SILL leads although the number was
zedueed to 1,6sS,29s The number
of natives of Germany have
continued to show a loss of each de-
cade. since $780,. but the last de-
cade's decrease was the largest ever
shown.
The standing of other countries
m the foreign born population of
HE United States has changed some
what from ten years ago. Italy has
.ssken second place from Russia with
an increase of $4,000 in the pre-
sioas decade and a total for 1920 Of
1yes7,45s.s
:Rnssia has taken third place from
IRELAND, but showed a decrease Of
2e3.7sS compared with an. increase
Of about 100000 in the decade
1900-10. Natives of Russia in the
United States number '1,398,999.
Poland has gone into fourth place
which was occupied by Italy with an
inerease of 105,797 in the ten years
bringing there total to 1,139,57S.
Ireland, which has shown de-
grasses in each decade since 1890,
had a larger decrease during the last
decade than in any previous one, the
loss having been 316,571, compared
with a decrease Of 263,208 for 1900
10. The total number Of Irish born
m the United States IN 1920 was L.
es5.6S0, ranking that country fifth.
Canadians Stay Away
Canada showed a decrease of st.
sol in the ten years compared with
IN increase of $1,000 the previous
decade land dropped from fifth to
sixth place Total Canadians num-
ber 1,117,136, French Canadians
numbered 307,681 and showed a loss
T402 in the ten years while
ether Canadians numbered 8O9,455
md showed a loss Of 10000,
Persons born in England number
ed S18,414, which was a decrease of
S.305 in the ten years, compared
with an increase of $1,000 the pre-
visus ten . years. England ranked
seventh which place she held ten
lears ago.
Sweden continued to hold the
eighth place with a total of