TOPICS OF THE DAY.
WHERE FRANCE GETS MEN. v '• Now that Franco is coming to rely more and more upon her colonial recrjuits, it is interesting to remember that they are coming from the vast districts of Africa that Lord Salisbury once alluded to as containing'" very light land; that is to say, It is the Desert of the Sahara." Sir Henry Stanley and the late King of the Belgians saw further than Lord Salisbury. ''The French," said Stanley, while Britain was laughing at tho "very light land," "have got the best of it, for they have got the country which breeds soldiers"; and King Leopold wagged his head at the French plenipotentiaries as he said, "Ah! yes. I see what you want there. You "are looking for me." And by all accounts France is finding men there to-dav.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11537, 5 November 1915, Page 4
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