AN OUTRAGE
ON A PROFESSOR
TARRED AND FE^f-HERED
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.; (Received this day at 8 a.m.) , CAPETOWN, May 23. Professor Lament, lecturer in Frerttll at Pretoria University, was tarred and leathered by .our men and dumped in the centre of the city clad only in bailing trunks, at 11 o’clock this morning.
The outrage arose out of reflections on Afrikanders appearing in a. book' ‘‘War, Wine, and Women,” which 'ii; is'alleged Lament wrote. ' ” Two examples follow:—"Descendants of Boertcekkers” are poor whites I ,' : utterly degenerate.”
“The‘South African earns big money in the mines. His ignorant, vulgar’Wife parades the streets in tawdry finery.” Four young men have sui rendered to the police.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 5
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113AN OUTRAGE Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 5
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