Tlic usual gaiety of the annual fair held at Varvariu, in Serbia, recently was broken by an appalling event. The news spread among the crowd that a peasant had recognised in a blind, white-skinned child in the charge of some gipsies at the fair, the missing child of a relative; and it. was assumed that the child had been deliberately blinded by the gipsies to add to her earning power as a beggar. Masses of peasants rushed wildly at the gipsy encampment, and three gipsies, including a woman whom the child persistently affirmed to be the only mother she had ever known, were lynched. Many others on both sides were injured in the fighting, which ended in the peasants setting fire to all the gipsy caravans.
HODGE’S ECONOMIC DRAPER?, OAMARU. FUJI SILK, standard quality; a clean finish ; pure silk; 30 laches wide; Hodge’s Price, Is yard.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22114, 18 November 1933, Page 18
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