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Show uu k UPROAR CAUSED BY CENSUS TAKING JERUSALEM, Dec 2. Palestinians are temperamentally afraid of tho i nSU& In the days of Abdul Ham Id and other Ottoman rulers a census was taken only In order to Increase tax it! on or to conscript the men for military' service. The pre-war daya ar still fresh In people's minds, and therefore most of them today prefer to remain uncounted Uecause of thin, and the feeling which has run very strong among the Mohammedan and Christian populations on account of the Balfour declaration, tho present government's demand for a census has met with considerable opposition. The government evidently has been perfectly sincere In Its purpose to f:nJ out the total population of Pales- i - t.ne with the primary object! mining who Is eligible to 1 forthcoming election for men lh legislative councils of t rnmerit However, every soi position has been encount3 from In, Int. .Ilg. nt nnd the The Mohammedan-ChrlatlsJ first sent out a manifesto to Rtltuency. adlslng thfin to they could to help tho ceaaj hut lat'T the society retrs in mlfeto. Tnls resulted In o posit h i 'i the ccn sua csptc Nahlus, the ancient Schechen. The government began by' 'a strong hand and lmpril dozen notables, but It finally its policy, released all who I j arrested, and even consents demand to enumerate all si rians. which had been put 'by tho society. ' |