Word: indo-china
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Bamboo whips, bayonets, machine guns and the guillotine were not enough. As a final effort Minister of the Colonies Paul Reynaud was in Hanoi last week to do what he could to settle the growing unrest in French Indo-China...
...notion of civilizing his subjects, the French thesis is that they must interfere as little as possible with the native life in their colonies. The French go-native system has worked extremely well in Tunis and Morocco, badly in Syria, and has now run into trouble in French Indo-China...
...bundle of incriminating documents to French authorities. After studying this batch of evidence the French Colonial Office realized that the guillotine may not have been the ideal cure. Minister of the Colonies Paul Reynaud left his desk in Paris and hurried East for four months. While he is in Indo-China beheadings will be suspended. Said a spokesman for Paul Reynaud, "M. Le Ministre will examine sympathetically native grievances...
...west and money troubles of its own, arranged to float a $15,000,000 bond issue, provided $600,000 in ready cash. From the U. S. Red Cross came $100,000. The League of Nations Public Health Service cabled an offer of epidemiologists and supplies from stations in India, Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies and Japan. Emperor Hirohito of Japan sent $27,000. The Asiatic fleet of the U. S. Navy was mobilized for emergency work and to look after U. S. citizens (the New York Times counted 896 in the district, all safe, most of the women leaving...
...French Line, M. Laval reminded the Chamber, operates not only transatlantic, trans-Mediterranean and Far East services (to French Indo-China) but has pioneered French Morocco as a tourist playground, built in the oases of its deserts a chain of de luxe hotels. With depression striking everywhere, M. Laval found it possible to understand how the French Line has incurred a deficit, asked the Chamber to guarantee in the name of the State a $6,000.000 French Line bond issue. "The Campagnie Generate is not the only navigation company now in trouble," wound up M. Laval. "I might cite...