TURKISH CENSUS
POPULATION KEPT INDOORS. Republican Turkey took her second census in October, and to facilitate the work the whole population, excepting census officials and police, was kept indoors. Severe fines or imprisonment was the punishment for disobedience. For the first time in memory all churches were closed. All shops, restaurants, and theatres were also closed, and all traffic stopped. During the whole of the Sunday afternoon when the census was taken, in Istanbul hundreds of thousands of people were at the windows of their flats and houses, dressed ready for the streets, eagerly waiting for the sound of the gun which would signal that they were free to go out again. Measures for taking the census were well organised, but a gun which was fired at 4.30', and resulted in a general rush to the streets, was found to have been fired by mistake. Gendarmes had the task of sending the people back home until the release signal was eventually fired at 5.45 p.m. ' Turkey’s population at the last census in 1927 was 13,500,000. It is now expected to liavo reached 18.000,000.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 304, 21 November 1935, Page 16
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