Paris, April 19.
While President Millerand is making his tour through Morocco and Northern Africa, there has been trouble in Tunis. Some of the inhabitants of that protectorate have Avother section illustrates life in the Sahara and Central Africa, The hovels of the imitation African village are in marked contrast to ithe refined finish of the temples and pagodas of Cambodia. No local colour has been lost. Even the cows lowing in their stalls and the litter of an African street are to be found; and so on throughout the exhibition, with its imitation buildings and settlements of Morocco, Algeria, Madagascar, Indo-China and western and equatorial Africa. been inspired by the success of the!
Fvery section of the exhibition will Egyptians to rise up against foreign be filled with typical commercial domination and manage things for and artistic produce from the themselves. Unlike Egypt, how-colonies. They will be arranged in ever, Tunis does not control one of stalls designed to look like native the main routes of the world's trade, bazaars and shops, and native and her patriots have little prospect workers and salesmen will be there of active sympathy from outside. to add to the local colour. This big Whether they are really patriots, organization does great credit to or simply Bolsheviks, is hard to tell, Marseilles. Its merchants of to-day as the French newspapers publish are worthy of their forbears, whose nothing but obviously inspired company of merchants were the official accounts of the situation. forerunner of our modern Chambers From these we learn that the of Commerce and who, centuries French Resident-General escorted ago, employed Eastern agents at by a troop of cavalry, went to the far higher salaries than the King of Bey's palace and told him that he France could afford to pay to his must separate himself from the per-ambassadors. sons in his entourage who had been Tue Mysrery or A Suicive. giving him bad advice—in other words, encouraging him to make a Capt. Robinot Marcy, a hand-show of claiming independence. some young' officer who was study-This action had the desired effect, ing at the School of War, was and the Bey, we are told, has now found dead, shot through the head subsided. with a revolver, in his bachelor At present there is no sign that quarters in the Rue Oudinot nearly the Tunisians are as fully determined as the Egyptians to agitate for national independence. It is amusing to note the similarity between' British action in Egypt and French action in Tunisia. When we used the firm hand in Egypt, the French newspapers called us tyrants and adversaries of liberty and so on, but they have not found any other way for themselves in Tunis, although they can use one new argument—that they are helping to stem the tide of Bolshevism.
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