By this time the circulation had dropped to only about 11,000.
By early 2006, circulation had dropped from an initial level of 212,000 to about 130,000 copies.
In the last quarter of the 20th century, circulation dropped.
But circulation peaked in 1997 at 384,000, and has since dropped to 291,000.
The Journal's average daily circulation dropped almost 2 percent, to 1,740,450 from 1,774,880 in the period a year earlier.
However, circulation dropped further and faster than expected, reaching 190,000 in the third week.
The newspaper's circulation has dropped in recent years and the staff reduced.
The paper's circulation dropped after the war, then rose by the end of the 19th century.
But according to its own figures, circulation has dropped by more than 200,000 to 500,000.
Meanwhile, circulation has dropped to about 400,000, compared with its peak of 2.7 million back in 1972.