SINGAPORE CENSUS
DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED.
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
SINGAPORE, July 1.
There were amazing scenes last night, on the occasion of the taking of the Singapore census, which is regarded as the most difficult to take in the Empire. The Chinese Communists were thinking that the count was intended for conscription for the next world war. They therefore hurled a jam tin bomb through a window of the Chinese Protectorate, but it did not explode. Others thought that the poll tax was intended, and they resisted violently. The junks, sampans and native craft in the harbour and the canals, where thousands live afloat, had to be stealthily boarded from patrol launches, under police protection, in order to count the occupants by the light of electric torches. The census officers also combed the Singapore by-ways in order to count the city’s homeless thousands. The census had to be taken between 2 a.m. and dawn, because this is the only time that is certain to find the population in their customary haunts.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1936, Page 9
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