ALSATIANS COLONISE ALGERIA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 16, 26 February 1915, Page 1 (Supplement)

ALSATIANS COLONISE ALGERIA.

When Franco was definitely crushed liv the German invasion of IS7D-1. and | the cessation of Alsace-Lorraine- was insisted upon by the Teutonic victors, a iiatriotic Frenchman, Dr. \varnier, of Algiers, po'nted out that by o,k>i ng i,rant'- of land in Algeria to the victims of the war. many Alf>at:ans might avoid I,cooming German subject* and bring up their families under the shelter o, the Tricolour, while assisting to develop the agriculture of France's oversea possessU "'ho idea " cauflit on." and by decree dated October Hi. IfTl. committees were formed in French Lorraine (at \ancv and at Holfort) to register and class'the iwnv colonists. So numerous were the applications that Imp ered.t ol £](; (HKI proved entirely nisullien'iit. An additional sum was nectary. nam-.; had paid off two of the five milliai Is exacted by liismartk as a war md< m- ' To pav off the notlier three milliards, and so definitely rid the country <»t its German garrison was the burning ' e> |r «' o feverv patriot- "If the Government eannot"find the money." eaid a committer of Alsatian ladies, "we will endenvtod') SO." Thev opened a •"">er'pS,, "ill! »ml h»<r 1-2I0«K1 ' n tli.-v Government dce:dc<l 1o float a Wl'.rt v,,\a to he done with t.c- . filreadv collated? A sj.ee alb.« passed bv which it was author,«e.i t<. b/» exoended on Alsatian eniigia ion t , Algeria. Charm* fitriko th.e Bglit. hus merit r-ins the soul.