FRENCH INDIA’S STAND.
PONDICHERRY, Sept. 10.
French India has rallied to General de Gaulle and denounced the Vichy Government.
Pondicherry, the chief of the French settlements in India, is on the Coromandel coast 90 miles south-west of Madras. The town has a population exceeding 48,000, and the colony’s population is about 185,000. The French first settled there in 1674, but the town was held by the Dutch in 1693-97, and by the English in 1761-63, 1778-83, and 1793-1816. The town is divided into two parts by a canal. It has handsome streets, a government house, college, lighthouse, and a cotton mill employing 1500 hands. It exports chiefly oilseeds.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 243, 11 September 1940, Page 7
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108FRENCH INDIA’S STAND. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 243, 11 September 1940, Page 7
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