JEWS AND MOSLEMS
RIOT IN CONSTANTINE
TROOPS SENT FROM ALGIERS
MANY CASUALTIES
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 7, 11 a.m.) ALGIEKS, August 6. Twenty persons were killed and seventy wounded.in rioting at Constantino owing to a drunken Jewish Zouave entering a mosque at prayer time on Saturday and insulting the worshippers. The news spread like wildfire and Mohammedans invaded ihe Jewish, quarter. Fighting lasted all night long. Tho Mohammedans marched down the central street and fired several houses, whereupqn the Jews attacked them eu masse, causing a pitched battle, in which, knives, revolvers, and bludgeons were I used. Troops and gendarmerie were ,! rushed from Algiers and restored order. j The conflict was temporarily terI minated as the result of Jewish and Mohammedan meeting in the Town Hall, but upon its dispersal Mohammedans stopped, searched, and manhandled Jews, leading to a fresh outbreak. Citizens barricaded their houses. The Governor-General' of Algeria, M. Jules Cardp, is hastening to tho scene from Paris, being due on August 7. ■ ■ ■ . " ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1934, Page 9
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167JEWS AND MOSLEMS Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1934, Page 9
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