A "PRIVATE WAR” IS IN PROGRESS HERE.—Defending the Union Jack in an island comedy. A “private war” by a Frenchman, M. Leroux, who sent two workmen to build a house on one of the Minquiers Islands. These “specks” have always been regarded as belonging to Jersey in the Channel Group and are thus British. The whole of the population of the islands, numbering twelve able-bodied men and a dog, is naturally indignant at what is termed the French “invasion.” Photograph shows the only houses in the Minquiers Islands, in the shadow of the Union Jack
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 762, 7 September 1929, Page 19
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95A "PRIVATE WAR” IS IN PROGRESS HERE.—Defending the Union Jack in an island comedy. A “private war” by a Frenchman, M. Leroux, who sent two workmen to build a house on one of the Minquiers Islands. These “specks” have always been regarded as belonging to Jersey in the Channel Group and are thus British. The whole of the population of the islands, numbering twelve able-bodied men and a dog, is naturally indignant at what is termed the French “invasion.” Photograph shows the only houses in the Minquiers Islands, in the shadow of the Union Jack Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 762, 7 September 1929, Page 19
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