TANGIERS HORRORS
AMONGST THE MAHOMETANS. RAGS, FILTH AND VERMIN. LONDON, May 22. The correspondent of Ihe Times at Tan* giers states that the report of the director of the Pasteur Institute amazingly exemplifies ihe futility of international control. Ih e director reports that on inspecting the Mohomctan .suburb of Xangiers he found it a veritable inferno, peopled by madmen and naked women, while children lay prone from exhaustion, and uncovered save for flies. Elsewhere there were motionless figures In fill.tv rags, with regard to whom it was hard to decide whether they were sleeping or dying. The director states that he emerged swarming with vermin, and he denounces such horrors existing in proximity to the high road frequented daily by fashionable people proceeding to golf or polo.
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Southland Times, Issue 18844, 9 June 1920, Page 5
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127TANGIERS HORRORS Southland Times, Issue 18844, 9 June 1920, Page 5
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