AMAZING SCENES
TAKING OF CENSUS AT SINGAPORE. CHINESE REDS THROW DUD BOMB. •i ,«.a • t> >'•» * t- • ■' JUNKS AND OTHER CRAFT APPROACHED STEALTHILY. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright). (Received Jiilv 1, 9.55 p.m.) SINGAPORE, July 1. There were amazing scenes last night in connection with tho taking of the Singapore census; which is re garded as the most -difficult in the Empire. . • ' Chinese Communists, thinking tho count was intended for conscription for the next world war, hurled a jamtin bomb through the window of tbo Chinese protectorate, but it did not. explode. Others thought' a poll tax was intended and resisted violently. Junks, sampans and native craft in the harbour and 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. >• Census officers also combed Singapore’s byways in 'order to count the City’s homeless thousaiids. Tlio ccnsiis bad to bo taken between 2 a.m. and dawn because this was the only time at which it was certain to find the population in its customary haunts.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12903, 2 July 1936, Page 5
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