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It is possible that there is no sub- French Algeria has decided to places farming methods are stili
thore false begin its centenary celebrations in rudimentary. Very little enterprise, ject responsible for January, 1930, and to spead not less has been shown in the use of trac- sentiment and exaggerated distor. than 130 million franes on them. tors. Algeria is not yes self-sup- The culminating point will not be porting in, grain. Statistics show ton of fact than the reached till Jaly, for it waS that no advance has been made in Foreign Legion. The setting of its July 5th, 1830, that General Count the total cereal supply during the activities itself lends colour to all de Bourmont entered Hussein last .12 years. In sheep farming the romantic clap-trap in which a Dey's capital and reported to his and in the culture of vegetables, certain class of sensational writers Government: "Twenty days have olives, and dates satisfactory pro- sufficed to effect the destruction of grass has been made. Great hopes love this State, the existence of which are also placed on the trade in has been a source of embarrass-alla or esparto graes, which must ment to Europe during three cen- became of increasing importance as turies. Fifty-one years later the the world's appetite for
as it is since the Great War. Treaty of the Bardo recognized the grows. French Protectorate over Tunisia.
Desolate Tracts,
have been at its headquarters at The 20th century has seen the ex-
There are, however, still great Sidi-bel-Abbas since the war, but tension of Italian rule to Tripoli
tracts now desolate which were was not then concerned in the lat tania and Cyrenaica, and the estab- fishment of another French Protec under cultivation 16 centuries ter-day composition of its person- torate in Morocco through the Bu Grara, El Jem, Haidra, An- genius of Marshal Lyautey. The neuna, Tiragad, Lambese are a few nel.
But during the French cam- whole of El Maghreb is once more out of any, For France has not under the influence of Latin civil yet solved the interdependent prob-paigns in Morocco, previous to the ization, though two native rulers,lems of water supply and afforesta the Sultan of Morocco and the Beytion. The old. idea that this failure Great War, I saw much of the of Tanis, survive to share in the is due to a change of climate is Foreign Legion, and I was then work of regeneration.
contradicted by M. Albertini" It | interested in the unit, from a France is justifiably proud of her is unlikely that the climate of military point of view. As far as
North Africa has chauged percept- work in Algeria since Charles bly since the dawn of history," my experience then went, two truge won their facile victory over Too little has been done in the way thirds of the men were Germans "the scourge of Christendom." It was only after much hard fighting reafforestation and water stor from Alance.
For the most part. and many vacillations of policy that age. Even in the towns the water she established the miitary eccur-apply is unsatisfactory, as the in- these were young men who had ity that is essential to economic habitants of Tunis, Biskra, and taken service with France to avoid More serious their military obligations to Ger- prosperity. Fortunately, he rea! Algiers can testify. ized the lesson that Rome never still is the question of man-power.
The remaining third were learned--that the Power which So far, France has not yet found wishes to rule the Tell and the it easy to colonize her North Afri for the most part Frenchmen, but men of her the balance was made up of odd. High Plateaux must hold the can possessions" with Sahara. Her military grip
"on own race. Some 6gures may show ments, such as Greeks, Armenians, how the colonist tends to disap- Italians, and Levantine Turks. A Algeria and Tunisia is absolute..
Industrial Development,
pear. Of the 300 concessions grant ed in the Aumule district in 1850 fraction of these had been attract With this security have come in-only ten now remain; there are 20 ed to the Legion in a spirit of ad. dustrial and maritime development. new colonists in the district. Near There is a tendency for vessels to Faiestro eight out of 85 concestia venture, but the majority were concentrate on the three big har are atill in the hands of French. fugitive from the rigours of the hours, Oran, Algiers, and Booa, men, and at Beni-Amram three out law, and were usually men of con-
considerable volume of
Cantun Ice To fill the gaps left by siderable mental developinent and trade passes through Philippeville, native-born Frenchmen nationaliza- Bougie, Mostaganem, and Jijelition has been made extremely easy
even culture. What their particu In Tunisia. the capital, Susa, and for other Europeans. Spaniards, lar crimes had been was not ascer Sfax are making noteworthy pro and in a less degree Maltese, have tained. The kepi and commerband gress, Iron ore and, to degree, copper and zine help econ-alled themselves of these facil of the Legion gave the fugitive omic development, but the chief ties, and thereby done something from justice sanctuary for the five mineral wealth lies in the phos recruit the French population in years of his engagement.
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Is There A Doctor Among You? The story is told, I believe with truth, that on one occasion an ofi- cer of the Legion was faced with
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Israelites were made French citi the frontier between Tunisia and
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su buy. the Berbers, who could only securo extension of the railway from this status hy renouncing the right situation that required immediate
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ALE. Constructions Ali sel, 1.10 B. if Moslem jurisdiction. Since the skilful medical handling. He turn- Viticulture and agriculture are
War France he endeavoured to there a ductor among you?"
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the average number who have of his privates put down their bay,-bayers; sal-ellers; s-sales; brought the vine back to the land. from which Islam had banished it availed themselves of the privilege rifles, and volunteered the expert Their vineyards at Staoveli have only 33 per annum, or fewer than attention he required. An English- one per 100,000. The question of man, whom I knew personally, and led the way in a remarkable re- vival; in fact, many observers be the disfranchisement of the vast who, through the vicissitudes of the lieve that too much country has majority of the population in what Great War, drifted into the French been put under the vine. The dis are theoretically three departments Foreign Legion, told me that of.
and of France-Oran, Algiers, Constan- his two "pals," one was a doctor, tricts of Medes, Meliana, Rcuíba and the country round tine is bound to become of in who had fled from an illegal prae- creasing importance. In Taniaía tice in Paris, the other an abscond. Carthage have already won a con-
the population problem is evening bunker. But this is by the way. siderable reputation for their wines. But viticulture, although of more urgent. Trustworthy static- great "economic importance to the iss are bard to obtain, but it seems country, is practically confined to probable that there are nearly many Italians as the coast districts, and employs three times na
the Protectorate. fex labourers when compared with Frenchmen is agriculture. Wheat, barley, and Fascist propaganda and Italian osts are grown not merely on the schools keep alive the national Tell, but also in the High Plateaux spirit, which is stimulated by the and the cases. There is an agricu-car that France may at three notice denounce the tural college at Maison Carrée, but months' there is still much to be done foc treaties which safeguard Italian fore the cultivation of cereals is antionality in the Beylical, domi- placed on a proper basis. In many nions.-The Times.
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DYING MAN'S WIFE. COUNSEL AND "HUMAN VULTURE."
CAR THAT WENT OVER A
CLIFF...
Described by his counsel as a man who had served his country well, Frederick James Ward, aged 33, a disabled naval pensioner, was
The Question Of Discipline. The question is not the romance. if it may be called romance-of the self-sought purgatory of the in- telligent criminal, but the problem that faces the French higher com- mand in the discipline of this ex- traordinary unit. The members of the Legion are not citizens in the ordinary sense of the word who are carrying out an obligation of citizenship. They are men who, for the various reasons suggested above, find it advantageous to change their venus of life. They are mak ing a convenience of the military Court admitted that Ward tax-machine of France to gain some ed him with infidelity, but denied immediate personal end. Such men saying that the car was alwars tire quickly of the monotony of life with with the colours. "A considerable getting him into trouble women, or that he told Ward to percentage of them are men of high take it and burn it.
intelligence. Unless this material be handled with a discipline that is austere-austere even to the verge of brutality-their active intel- ligences will undermine the whole fabric of this peculiar military machine."
He also denied taking married women about in the car, but said he took Mrs. Ward out once or He took Mrs. Ward from twice. her husband on June 6th, and they parted about three weeks later.
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at East Kent Quarter Sessions at Mr. James: Did you leave her Canterbury found not guilty of without a penny-No, I gave her maliciously damaging a motor-car some money. belonging to Frederick John Court, of Simla, Diamond Road. Whit stable. The damage to the car was
estimated at" £85.
Detective Marshall said
over the cliff.
Ward, in evidence, said his wife was 29 years old and there were three children. He had been in the Navy before and during the war,
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It must be remembered that the the Legion. This brutality in the Legion is liable to be distributed case of penal battalions is doubt- in small detachments in isolated less studied with the object of stations in the desert. All such de- breaking the hearts of the worst "OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE centralisation is subversive to dis- types of the criminals who have cipline unless the discipline is of transferred their criminality from such a rigorous nature that the in- the civilisation of Europe to the dividuality of the malcontents has ranks of the Legion. been suppressed before dispersion dossiers of these men many of takes place. This is the key of the them human beasts could be dis-
If the
Ward went to the police station at from tuberculosis.
that and wae favalided out suffering Whitstable on June 14th and stated He took the car to look for his whole master. The virus of indisclosed, some excuse might be allow- that he had pushed Court's car wife, and his next recollection was cipline, is always present in the them. That there are abuses is not cipline, and intelligent indis-ed for the treatment meted out to that he was at Beltinge and was composition of France's Foreign denied. Victimisation of the in- thrown out of the car when it was Legion, and it has to be suppress- nocent and weak is not confined, four or five feet from the cliff.
At the end of his evidence he broke down.
Met On The Beach, Frederick Court, aged 46, said he out was a fisherman and hired boats at Whitstable. He sometimes dept at an address in Chislet., He was married and had three child-
req.
ed with a heavy hand.
̈A Cause Of Migunderstanding. Not that the brutality of the under-officers WRI really out- rageous, as compared with that of the German and French shus officiers of pre-war days. In this matter the bearing of the ordinary sergeants of the Foreign Legion is
lickers
"That Scoundrel.” Addressing the jury, Mr. James He first met. Mr. Ward two said that they had listened to the years ago on the beach at Whit-story of a young husband, the table and became friendly with father of three children, a man her. He went to her house at her who had served his country well, request sometimes three or four and who tried to make a home confused with that of these dish
together with his wife
in, the penal battalions. nights a week.
Into that bome came a buman This brings us to the real point vulture, and while Ward, was up-in day discussion of this bizarre ataire dying, that scoundrel, that unit. betrayer of women, was fouling the The method of dragooning the home this man had built up. whole regiment is to post undoubt If a verdict of guilty were reed malefactors to penal battalions. turned Ward's pension and his The treatment of proved miscreants whole life would be in jeopardy, transferred to these penal bat He asked them to let Ward go talions is responsible for much of back to his shattered home to live the nonsense that is written about out his life as best be could.
(Continued on next Column),
Mr. 8. T. James (for Ward): | Where was your own wife 7-At hone, I suppose.
You did not trouble to find out -No.
Where was that poor man on the majority of the occasions when you virited his wife 1-Bometimes he was in the room.
And sometimes ill in bed dying Yes, sometimes.
unfortunately, to the Foreign Legion.
Forefront of Battle. That the Legion was put in the forefront of the battle in the Great Way was only to be expected. In the first place their discipline entitled them to this position; in the second, Military France looks upon them as mercenaries-and mercenaries all through history have never been nursed when it came to fighting. Believe me, all sentiment about the Foreign Legion is false." I have been with these gallant soldiers of France in field, in camp, and in battle, and a good Legionnaire is as honoured ne any soldier in France. A bad Eegionnaire will find his way to a penal battalion, and there he will only get his de- seri-Sunday Times.
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