PERSECUTED BLACK

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1938, Page 9

PERSECUTED BLACK

IN TROUBLE IN LONDON

HELP BY "THE THOUSANDTH MAN"

A JOB IN ESSEX

(DntUd Press Assoclatlon-Uj Electric Teleer&ph—Copyrlsto. i (Received January 21, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, January 20. ■ Quoting Kipling's "The Thousandth Man," the "Daily Mail" says: "But for the Thousandth Man Anthony Martin Fernando, a septuagenarian Australian aborigine, might still tell the world that it is 'agin him' and that hordes of children, startled by his stubbly white beard, contrasting with his dark and shrivelled face, often followed and mocked him."

He appeared at the Clerkenwell Court for having, in a fit of exasperation, thrown boiling water over a fellow-lodger. He declared that though he was a British subject he had been contemptuously treated, adding: "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 him employment in Essex, which Fernando gratefully accepted.