The Archive · 1938

Tunis Demonstrating Loyalty to France

Arab People of Colony Will Fight If Needed

Tunis, Sept. 14.

Several demonstrations of. loyalty to France took place here yesterday.

Many Arab Tunisian notabilities sent notes to the Resident-General stressing the attachment of the people of Tunis to France, The Bey of Tunis declared that these demonstrations confirmed his many statements on the sincerity of the population's sentiments for France end added that he could assert that the attachment of the Tunisian population "would go as far as the supreme sacrifice if France were drawn into a conflict, for the same heart beats in the Tunisian and French chests and the same will animates both peoples.—Havas.

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