AMAZING SCENES
CENSUS IN SINGAPORE CHINESE POPULATION PERTURBED DIFFICULT TASK FOR OFFICIALS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 2nd July, 9.35 a.m.) SINGAPORE, Ist July. There were amazing scenes last night during the taking of the Singapore census, which is regarded as the most difficult in the Empire. Chinese Communists, thinking the count was intended for conscription in the next world war, hurled a jam tin bomb through the window of the 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 by-ways in order to count the city’s homeless thousands. The census had to be taken between 2am and dawn, because this was the only time they were certain to find the population in the customary haunts.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 2 July 1936, Page 7
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