RIOTING IN ALGERIA
LIST OF CASUALTIES CONFLICTING REPORTS JEWISH FAMILIES' RUSE (Received August 8. 6.25 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON, August 8 The Paris correspondent of the Times reports that an official statement about the riots in Constantino, Algeria, between Jews and Mahommedans gives the casualties as 27 killed and 20 injured. Of the dead 23 were Jews and the rest Moslems. Some Jewish families saved themselves by placarding their homes with notices saying: "Christians live here." An earlier message from Algeria said that more than 100 people were reported to have bsen killed and wounded in the riots. Shocking atrocities were attributed to Arabs, including the maiming of girls and the ruthless slaughter of Jewish moneylenders by Arab debtors.
At one time it was feared that the whole town of Constantine, where the outbreak arose owing to a drunken Jewish Zouave entering a mosque, would be burned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21874, 9 August 1934, Page 11
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