RELIGIOUS RIOTS
90 CASUALTIES JEWS & MOHAMMEDANS CLASH, .United Press Association—By He'trie Telegraph—Copyright.} v (Received this day at 10.45 a.m.) i ALGIERS, August G. Twenty /were killed and , seventy wounded •in rioting at. .Constantine, owing w a. drunken Jewish, zouave entering a mosque at prayer time on Saturday and insulting the worshippers. The news spread like wild fire. Mohammedans invaded the Jewish quarter and fighting lasted throughout V-ie n'ight. It was temporarily, terminated as the result of a. Jew i sh-Mohammedan meeting iix the town hall, but upon dispersal, Mohammedans stopped, searched, and man handled Jews leading to a fresh outbreak. . . < > The citizens barricaded themselves in their (houses. , . . The Mohammedan's marched down the central street and set fire to several house, whereupon the Jews atteked en masse, causing a pitched 'battle in which; knives ■ revolvers', and bludgeons we’-e used. ''' ' Troops and _gendarmerie were rushed from Algiers and restored order. The Governor-General of Algeria, M. ...Julius Carde,. is hastening .to the scene from. Paris and is due on Tuesday. ■ ■' ' •
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1934, Page 5
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