FRANCE'S BLACK TROOPS.
THEIR EMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE. GENERAL MANGLVS VIEW. I IS? CA3LS—IEZSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) I vAL-STr.AUA.V AXD 5.2. CABU? ASSOCIATES.) (Received August 28th, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, August 23. General Mangin gave a luncheon at Strasbourg at which ho spoke of the possibilities of the French African colonies ns a recruiting ground for the armies of the Republic. "If riiy viewpoint had been accepted beforo the war," he said, "we should not have Lad 180.UOO black troops fighting in our ranks, but five or six timers that number, and th«~ war would have ended sooner. France is not a nation of 39,000,000. It is a nation of 100,000,000 subjects. "It is unfortunate that Senegalese troops are no longer on the Rhine. It is not impossible that the violent campaign in the Press of Germany and other countries may bo guided by the fear that our colonial Empire may be welded into one whole with France, and our power of expansion thus increased.'' [General Mangin, who was a French Army commander during the wax, was recently relieving Mnrshal Lyautey as Governor-General of Morocco.]
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17854, 29 August 1923, Page 9
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