“THE THOUSANDTH MAN.”
ABORIGINE’S SAVIOUR. EXPERIENCES IN LONDON. Received Jonuary 21, 1.50 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 20. Quoting Rudyard’s Kipling’s ‘‘The Thousandth Man,” the Daily Mail says: ‘‘But for the thousandth man, Anthony Martin Fernando, a septuagenarian Australian aborigine, might still feel the world is ‘agin him. Hordes of children, startled by his stubbly white beard, contrasting with his dark shrivelled face, often followed and mocked him. He appeared in the Clerkemvell Court for having in exasperation thrown boiling water on Ins fellow lodgers. He declared that though he was a British subject he was contemptuously treated, adding: “It is the black people who keep this country, in all its greatness; yet we are despised and rejected.” The detective agreed that Fernando had been much persecuted. The “thousandth man,” whose name w'as not disclosed, stepped from the back of the Court and offered him employment in Essex, which he gratefully accepted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 22 January 1938, Page 2
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