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STRAITS CENSUS.

FIGURES LESS THAN

EXPECTED.

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The Singapore Municipality has just taken a cepaus within the

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1926,

THE JAPANESE RIOTS.

NAGANO EXCITEMENT

CONTINUES.

Tokyo, July 20. limits of the town, and I the Vernacular despatches from Agures are to be relied on, Singa-Nagano state that mobs continge pore has not been growing, as threatening the authorities. rapidly as some people thought. Virtually all the police stations The population was found to numare surrounded, and the police are ber 373,525, which is only 25,000 unable to make arrests. The more than in 1921 and 33,000 Teas Government fears to use troops, than "the municipal working but heavy reinforcements of police estimate of population.

ate reported to be en route after

It has been suggested, so fre- which it is expected numerous quently says the Telegraph cor-Arrests of leaders will be effected. respondent) that the census. would It is reported that prominent even a startling increase of meinbers of the Prefectural Assem- population that the result is some-bly are among the riotors. It is what disappointing. The gure understood that the entire district does not represent the total popala is in a state of confusion, and the tion of Singapore island. There is populace is greatly exelted,

big aroa outside municipal limits Renter. which would probably account for about 100,000, more people, but, as is the way, with oflicinidum, the municipal census concerned itself with municipal territory only, and for the population of the island we still have to rely on

the 1921 figures.

PAINFUL TRAGEDY.

EUROPEAN FOUND SHOT.

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The Naval Yard was the scene of a painful tragedy yesterday afternoon, during the tiffin hour, when Mr. W, Blakey, an overseer there, was found lying shot near his office.

AMAZING RESULT. The result is amazing in con- sideration of the fact that during the six months of this year which have elapsed there has been a very big influx of labourers froming examined, and some old am- It appears that stores were be- South China, this following a year munition was being turned out in which immigration was much above the average. The troubled conditions in China have accounted for this more than usually large flow of labour to Malayan shores, though the country has always had its attraction for the people of South China, who find conditions here easy and the money much better than in their own country.

A good ileal of this labour,, on. course, is spread over Malaya, on tin mines and in other large in dustries, but a lot remains in Singapore, and it is inexplicable that the census figures show only a comparatively trifling increase over five years.

when Mr. Blakey quietly went out- as being done. Almost at once a side the buliding, where the work

report was heard, and his work- ground with a revolver nearby. mutes found him lying on the This was shortly after tiffin. He apparently died instantly, and the body was removed to the mortuary...

Deceased had not been long in May, coming from Portsmouth. the Colony. He arrived here early After being here a short while he developed neurastheule, and went to the Naval Hospital for a few weeks. He recently came out of hospital and had been back at work a few days.

He was a man of about 10 years of age, single, and leaves a widow- ed mother in England.

OBITUARY.

ACCURACY IMPOSSIBLE. The popularly accepted explana- tion is that, however carefully the census was taken, it inevitably presents an inexact record of the population of such a town as this. No census olleer could possibly hope to get a corect return of those hives of humanity the lodging houses in Chinatown. What with the natural ignorance of the people concerned and their suspicion of have to record the death of Cap- It is with great regret that we officials, it is obvious that hotain J. M. Anderson at sea, return would show anything like board the s.s. Chipshing. the complete figures.

Consequently it has been suggest

CAPTAIN J. M. ANDERSON.

on

The information was conveyed in a message from the a.a. Chipshing' ed in the local press that u census to Messrs. Jardinc Matheson and on generally accepted lines is al- Company, Captain Anderson hold- most bound to be a failure, and ing on appointment in that vessel some system of registration would as second officer, sailing hence for answer the purpose better. Re-Shanghai and Tientsin on Satur- gistration would also provide a day,

much needed check on the thousands of coolies, many of them Captain Anderson was the plaintiff It will be remembered that with bad record behind them, in the case against the Man Wing whe flock into the country ever S,S. Company on the point of dis- month. At present there is abso-missal at 24 hours notice, the lutely no check "on, these men. award being made in favour of the They casily obtain admission into company.

the country, and once in there is no check on where go or what they do. Often men who have com- mitted serious crimes and been. banished find their way back, and only occasionally are they dis- covered.

BAD CHARACTERS.

CRIMINAL FORCE,

..A SINGAPORE POLICE

OFFICIAL FINED.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

The result is that the country has many, bad characters. Gang robbery, terrorism and violence always exist in a more or less

Singapore, July 20. virulent form, and although at the The Inspector General of Police, present moment it is not so bad as Mr. Fairburn, has been fined $20 it was a year or two ago there is no on a charge of using criminal khowing when it may break cut force," by... whipping a telegraph again as violently as ever. Robber messenger because ho was noisy. gangs as powerful and well or- Defendant pleaded provocation, ganised as any in China itself have but the Magistrate found none. existed in this country, levying tell

on the community and, it is said,

forcing the rich Chinese to buy them inding the ready access to immunity from Interference by the the country which they do payment of large sums.

present.

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Gunmen are common in Singa- Reform has often been urged, pore. The other day one was but it is hard to change the East, caught by two Chinese detectives, and the view of the Government and a brisk'revolver duel ensued ingeems to be that any reform would the street, Finally the gurman, cause too great. a disturbance of bis ammunition, exhausted, fired things as they are. The country. his last shot into his brain.

has gone on well, and lawlessncas,

Since then the streets of Singa- it is thought apparently, has been pore's Chinatown are nightly kept reasonably in chet Still the patrolled by police armed with spread of the secret society rifles. Policemen so armed stand menace, armed robberies and

In couples at every street corner, murders show that things are by presenting to the visitor the apno means as they ought to be. The pearance of serious trouble being law abiding Chinese, who form the expected.

majority of Singapore's population, would welcome some Indication on would welcome some indica- part of the

REGISTRATION IDEA.

on. the

It is too much to expect now tion that all the "bad hats" in the Government to take this mit- country can be rounded up, but it ter of lawlessness- in hand would be possible, by some system much more firmly than has been, of registration, to prevent more of done in the past.

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