AN ABORIGINE IN LONDON
+ —— "CONTEMPTUOUS TREATMENT" ALLEGED LONDON, January 21. Quoting Kipling's "The Thousandth Man." the "Daily Mail" says that but for a thousandth man Anthony Martin Fernando, a septuagenarian Australian aborigine, might still feel that the world was "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 Clerkenwell Court for having thrown boiling water on fellow-lodgers. He declared that though he was a British subject he was contemptuously treated, and added: "It is the black people who keep this country in all its greatness, yet we are despised and rejected " "A detective agreed that Fernando had been much persecuted. The "thousandth man," whose name was not disclosed, stepped from the back of the court and offered Fernando employment in Essex, which was gratefully accepted. _______________
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22308, 24 January 1938, Page 19
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