Reading Times · Reading, Pennsylvania · 21 November 1912
CP-1912-002
CHRISTIANS MOWED DOWN BY MOSLEMS AT JAFFA, PALESTINE
Athens, Greece, Nov. 20
Transcribed from the clipping
“Reports of massacres of Christians in Jaffa, Palestine, caused the commander of the Russian cruiser Oleg to weigh anchor and depart hurriedly for that district today… There are supposed to be about 10,000 Christians among the inhabitants, the total of whom is estimated at about 40,000.”
Context added by this archive
The headline states an atrocity as fact. Underneath it: an Athens dateline, a rumour whose only evidence is that a warship sailed, no casualty counted, no witness quoted — and then three-quarters of the item is an inventory of missionary staff. This is held as a control. The machinery is identical to what produces the other kind of error, and here it runs the other way.
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"CHRISTIANS MOWED DOWN BY MOSLEMS AT JAFFA, PALESTINE," Reading Times, 21 November 1912. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1912-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1912-002
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