A study of the figures covering the reasons for denial of the 3,033 among the petitions of 1913-14 here analyzed illuminated special aspects of this matter, showing, as it does, how large a proportion of the denials are for reasons of a purely technical character, or because the petitioners abandoned their pursuit of citizenship after filing the final petition. The following table lists the races represented by forty or more petitions, _in the order of percentage of denials_, and shows the percentages attributable to the six principal reasons, respectively: “want of prosecution,” “incompetent witnesses,” “declaration invalid,” “ignorance,” “immoral character,” and “old-law declaration--held to be invalid.” TABLE XVIII RACIAL DISTRIBUTION OF 26,284 PETITIONERS DENIED, 1913-14, AND THE PER CENT OF THE DENIALS FOR THE SIX PRINCIPAL CAUSES (Part One) =========================================== COUNTRY | NUMBER | DENIALS | OF | OF +--------+------+ BIRTH | PETITIONS | Number | Per | | | | Cent | --------------+-----------+--------+------+ All countries | 26,284 | 3,033 | 11.5 | | | | | Greece | 90 | 27 | 30.0 | France | 86 | 19 | 22.1 | Italy | 3,591 | 646 | 18.0 | Turkey in | | | | Europe | 92 | 15 | 16.3 | Holland | 139 | 21 | 15.1 | Scotland | 288 | 42 | 14.6 | Denmark | 200 | 29 | 14.5 | England | 831 | 120 | 14.4 | Sweden | 616 | 80 | 13.0 | Germany | 2,305 | 296 | 12.8 | Switzerland | 197 | 25 | 12.7 | Turkey in | | | | Asia | 142 | 18 | 12.7 | Norway | 389 | 48 | 12.3 | Belgium | 41 | 5 | 12.2 | Canada | 385 | 43 | 11.2 | Hungary | 2,443 | 249 | 10.2 | Finland | 144 | 14 | 9.7 | Rumania | 569 | 54 | 9.5 | Russia | 7,864 | 744 | 9.5 | Ireland | 1,773 | 166 | 9.4 | Austria | 3,875 | 347 | 9.0 | Other | 201 | 27 | .... | No information| 23 | .... | .... | ===========================================