SINGAPORE CENSUS.
MOST DIFFICULT IN EMPIRE. I VIOLENT RESISTANCE OFFERED TO COUNT. BOMB HURLED BY. CHINESE COMMUNISTS. (Received Wednesday, 9.35 p.m.) SINGAPORE, July 1. There were amazing scenes last night at 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 a window of the Chinese Protectorate, but it did not explode. Others thought a poll tax was intended and resisted violently. Junks, sampans and other native craft in the harbour and on 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 thousands. The census had to be taken between 2 a.m. and dawn, because this is the only time certain to find the population in its customary haunts.
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Wairarapa Age, 2 July 1936, Page 5
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