TARRED AND FEATHERED

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 24 May 1932, Page 5

TARRED AND FEATHERED

SOUTH AFRICAN PROFESSOR SUSPECTED WAR-BOOK AUTHOR REFLECTIONS RESENTED. DEGENERATE POOR WHITES, (Uu'ted Pres* Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 10.45 n.m. to-day. CAPE TOWN, May 23. Profesor Lamont, lecturer in French at Pretoria University, was tarred aiul feathered by four men and damped m the centre of the city, clad only in bathing trunks, at eleven o clock tins morning. ' „ „ ~ „ The outrage arose out of reflections on Africanders appearing in the nook “War, Wine and Women,” winch, it is alleged, Professor Lamont wrote. Iwo examples are as follow: “The descendants of the Voortrekkers are PT 31 whites- utterly degenerate. tlie South African earns big money in the mines and his ignorant, vulgar wife /parades the streets in tauclij Four young men have surrendered to the police.

In the book “War, Wine and Women,” published by /Cassell and Company, the author is shown as \\ ufred Caint Mande.