CONSTABLE'S SEVEN LANGUAGES.
Seven languages Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, Modern Greek, Kronen, Italian, and English—are spoken | by Sydney Paterson, temporarily servI ing at Barry Dock, South Wales, as a ! police-constable, in order to qualify for a post abroad. Ho learned (Jreek and French while at school at Alexandria and Cairo, where his father was chief of police, and picked up Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian in tlio streets. At Barry Dock he has had to put all seven languages into use.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 53, 14 February 1913, Page 1
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79CONSTABLE'S SEVEN LANGUAGES. Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 53, 14 February 1913, Page 1
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