SPEAK FRENCH
ENGLISHMAN SHOT IN PARIS. (Rec. 7.5 p.m.) Paris, January 16. An Englishman believed to be William Brown, a mechanic from Newcastle was killed in Montmartre’s Boulevard at midnight, because he spoke French with a foreign accent. Brown was talking to a woman when a passerby exclaimed, “Talk French, not a foreign language.” The foreigner retorted: “Mind your own business,” whereupon the passerby whipped out a revolver, shot Brown and escaped.— A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20080, 18 January 1927, Page 5
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75SPEAK FRENCH Southland Times, Issue 20080, 18 January 1927, Page 5
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