ARABS PLAYING CARDS.
NOTHING ELSE TO DO. Willi nothing to do but play cards, a colony of Arabs, 450 strong, domiciled in a strange land, frowned upon by the authorities and ostracised by their brethren of the sea, exists in South Shields, England. "What are we to do?" asked Hassan Mohammed the head of the islamic Association on Tyneside and the proprietor of a large boarding-house, When a journalist discussed the problem of these Arabs with him. "My countrymen came here, for the most part, during the war, when they were needed to man the ship?. P»ow they cannot get work and only a very few of them are able to draw unerop oy ment benefit. Many of these men ® „ lived with me for four and nya y • In this boarding-house and °^ en seated' arTabir^y^P^^. pS a % apathetic*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 5 (Supplement)
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138ARABS PLAYING CARDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 5 (Supplement)
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