PRANCE.
PROPOSED NEW ARMY OF 700,000 BLACK TROOPS. ,- Paris, Sept. 11. At the re-opening of the Chamber of Deputies next week Deputy Masse will | introd'JCß a Bill enabling France to place | in the finid, in the spring, a well-trained 1 xniiy of at Wsi seven hundred thousand I new black troopa. All French colonics ■ and protectorates >vill be recruited. The > Governor's estimate is that Madagascar ' will contribute forty thousand. Algeria and Tunis seventy thousand, and Indoj China two hundred and eighty thousand.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1915, Page 6
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