£750 DAMAGES
ASSAULTED PROFESSOR
TAR AND FEATHER INCIDENT
(Received Oct. 22, noon.)
CAPETOWN, Oct. 21
Professor Lament, who was tarred and feathered and ejected from a motor ear in Pretoria Square by students and otiiers as a protest against reflections on the Yoortrekkers contained in his book, was awarded £7.'>o damages. Judge Dewaai said that if an author felt the necessity to expose the depravities and bestiality of war life, there was no necessity to attack the Yoortrekkers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17917, 22 October 1932, Page 7
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78£750 DAMAGES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17917, 22 October 1932, Page 7
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