Reports of excess drunkenness circulated abroad about this all-Jewish city of 135,000 souls have prompted 75-year-old Mayor Dizengoff to explain indignantly that it is the visitors, not the residents, who go in for conspicuous inebriation.
Blaming the agitation of temperance societies here and in England for the reports, he declared that only visitors are seen in the streets in an intoxicated condition.
Mayor Dizengoff’s outburst came at a meeting of the Municipal Council during a discussion of the hesitancy of the license committee to renew liquor permits in the city. The council agreed with him.
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