ALBANIANS FLEE CENSUS.
Fearing it might lead to their being enrolled for military service or render them liable to the attentions of taxgatherers, some 200,000 of Albania's estimated 1,000,000 population fled into the woods and mountains when an attempt was made to take the country's first census. Anticipating resistance of a kind which has had many parallels in the history of uncultivated peoples, the Albanian authorities had ordered the people to stay in their houses on the census day, and coffee houses were closed to remove the temptation to absent themselves. However, as was the ease with the first census of Kemalist Turkey and that taken by Hungary 150 years ago, these measures proved only partly successful, 833,000 inhabitants being registered.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 162, 11 July 1930, Page 8
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