The Archive · 1930

OUR PARIES LETTER Old Home Week for Frenchmen Abroad: Casino Gambling Frox Oun OwN Comesroxoexr

Paris, Jan, 10, An effort is being made to orga a great pilgrimage of Frenel men abraid and friends of Pra Ie is to be called the "Old Home, Week" and is to be carried out 1981, in connection with the Int national Colonial Exhibition on the astern outskirts of Paris. The organization is in the hands of My Gabriel Wernl6, general secretary of the Union' of Frenchmen in Foreign Lands. "It in estimated that about a million French eltizensy or perhaps it would be more core rect to say persons of French birt live in foreign lands and it is ho that many of them will take the opportunity of paying a visit to tha mother country. The plan has ceived official approval, and reduced rates. will be given to "pilgrims by French transport companies, whether by sea, rail or air.

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