PRETORIA PROFESSOR
TARRED AND FEATHERED REFLECTIONS ALLEGED CAPE TOWN, May 23. Professor Lamont, lecturer in French at Pretoria University, was tarred and feathered by four men and dumped in the centre of the city, clad only in bathing trunks, at 11 o’clock in the morning. The outrage arose out of reflections appearing in a book, “War, Wine and Women,” on Afrikanders which it is alleged Professor Lamont wrote. Two examples follow: “The descendants of the Voortrekkers are poor whites, utterly degenerate,” and ’“the South African earns big money in the mines and his ignorant, vulgar wife parades the streets in tawdry finery. Four' young men surrendered to the police.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 128, 25 May 1932, Page 2
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