FRENCH COLONIES.
MORE TALK OF EXCHANGE
SPECIAL TO SYDNEY BUN. London, March 20. Questioned in the House of Commons yesterday, Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Minister, said, that France had verbally informed * England that she ;was desired to discuss some means of adjusting difficulties arising from the nearness of French Colonies to British possessions in • India. This might possibly involve an exchange of territory. [Pondicherry is evidently the country referred to, as this is the only French territory in India. Tho population about 200,000. Poudicherry lie about 80 miles south-east of Madras, and is on the coast].
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2322, 28 March 1914, Page 2
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