Just before taking off for Constantine, Governor General Jules Carde of Algeria informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the severest measures will be taken “against the criminals guilty of the Constantine outrages.
“If the outbreak was not quashed instantly, it was because the old ghetto in which the Jews live is a labyrinth of winding streets, which the Arabs are much better acquainted with than the soldiers coming in from Algiers,” Governor General Carde declared.
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