THE COLOUR LINE
UNPLEASANTNESS IN FBANCE.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.^-COPIMGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN - SEW ZEAIAKD CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
L'ARIS. Ist August. Anti-negro feeling is steadily 'crowing in France, especially 'silice the Siki outbreaks.' Several recent incidputs in which Americans have 'figured 'have forced the Foreign Office to issue an officiar'cominunique ' sji'atina' that' foreigners' must not try to' draw a'colour'lipe; ilud tfiat penalties /would be'; inlieted in'"future. The' notification einphasises';tha'}. ua'tiyes of French colonies are'entitled to equal rijrhts with white people.' ' Recently a."scene'occurred as a motor coach was starting to coiivey a party to the battlefields. -\An American demanded that"anejn:o'should be ejected from the vehicle.'"The negro refused to leave, declaring that He haji fought on the battlefield long before the America ns came into the war. A violent disturbance' elisued. The police intervened, and the trip was abandoned. The negro''is suing the motor company.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1923, Page 6
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139THE COLOUR LINE Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1923, Page 6
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