BITTER ATTACKS
ON FOREIGNERS IN TURKEY, LANGUAGE DISPUTE. RIOT. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 26. Because the Italian director of the Sleeping Car Company ordered the clerks to speak French instead 01 Turkish, five hundred students mobbed' (the tympany’s offices, waiasuea th© p,late glass windows, electric sig ns > bars. Thousands of cozens joined the and wrecked the interior with crossstudents. The police were helpless. When .all the damage was done, the fire brigde arrived and dispensed the mob with hoses.
Several newspapers have given national importance to the event, resulting in bitter on all foreigners. *‘La IRepubljque,” for instance, says; pYou tophaHed robbers. Occidental vagabonds and brigands, do you still take Turkish employees to be your creatures, our language, your chained slave? pigra, dogs, leeches, .scorpions, there is no place for you above or beneath Turkish Roil.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1933, Page 7
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134BITTER ATTACKS Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1933, Page 7
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