TAX RUMOUR CAUSES SOMALI RIOT
NAIROBI Reports have reached Nairobi of a disturbance among Somalis in Mogadishu when a threat by a crowd to attack the local headquarters of the British civil affairs department was met by rifle-fire from guards. The position is now norma! and there has been 110 recurrenee of the distui'bance. The cause was a misunderstanding about a check Avhich the authorities were undertaking before the issue of rationed foodstuffs to tribesmen. A rumour spread that the counting of heads was a prelude to taxation, and chiefs with their followers came to the headquarters of the British military administration in Mogadishu to protest. They were sent to the civil affairs headquarters and while the British civil affairs officer was explaining the situation, stone throwing- was begun by a crowd of hooligans that had collected. The crowd then attempted to rush the office and .penetrated into the compound, w.here-upon the guards on duty were instructed to use firearms.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5293, 4 January 1947, Page 3
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160TAX RUMOUR CAUSES SOMALI RIOT Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5293, 4 January 1947, Page 3
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