Clark, Charles Upson (1927). Bessarabia. New York City: Dodd, Mead. Archived from the original on October 8, 2019. Retrieved March 15, 2006.
Charles Upson Clark, Bessarabia. Russia and Roumania on the Black Sea:
"These figures were based on estimates of the population of Bessarabia as consisting 60% of Moldavians, 14% Ukrainians, 12% Jews, 6% Russians, 3% Bulgarians, 3% Germans, 2% Gagautzi (Turks of Christian religion), and 1% Greeks and Armenians. This appears to be a fairly accurate guess; the official Russian figures, which the Moldavians considered inaccurate and padded, set the Moldavian proportion considerably lower, as about one-half. Such figures are misleading in all European countries of mixed nationalities, since the census enumerator generally has instructions to count everyone who understands the state language as being of that nationality, no matter what his everyday speech may be."