Rock Island Argus., 1915-10-27
FRENCH CARE FOR
ALL FOREIGNERS
Natives of Countries 1T Var With
France Are GiTeH Proper Treat
meut at Frances Expense.

Paris. Oct .-tC5rrespondenee ot
+ The Associated Press THE super
/ vision and support Of subjects OF bel
ltgereut countries Interned or allowed
/ 10 reside jn France has given tbe gov
#eTnment vast amount af work and
Ientailed an expense of approximately
/ Is55.000 900 10 date.
{ The government policy has been
I 10 treat justly all subjects Of conn
{ tries at war with France residing with
( In its territory at the outbreak of fhe
war and TO treat them as literally as
+ the necessary precautions for the ua-
tion s security would permit The As
|sociated Press is informed by Minister
of the Interior MaIvy. upon whom this
great responsibility has devoIve5.
AT the beginning of hostiIi6es he
continued, it became necessary to in-
|terue In concentration camps 10000
subjects of countries at war with
France That number has been re
duced DO ia. 200 by the repatriation Of a
certain number by agreement between
the interested powers and by accord
ing to others residence permits that
+ seemed to be justified by their ethno-
/ logical origin or other considerations.
The Poles Tcheques and AIsatans.
and the Austriaus Of Italian origin. ma
lives of Treutiuo have benefited from
these exceptional measures Residence
permits have been issued to 1124 Ger
mans and 576 Austrians Some Of
them are uatGraIzed Germans whose
attitude towards France has been cor
rect in all circumstances. Some are
fathers of boys serving ia our armies.
Others are old and tried servants in
French. English or American families
who are vouche8 fer by their employ
ers.
There were &.z5# subjects Of The OF
.omau Empire residing In France be
. fore the declaration Of war by Turkey.
. All of these have been allowed to re-
side here with the exception Of about
fifty whose autecedents made their i'm
termeat necessary III the interests Of
the national defense The fnternad
civilians were sent 10 IS different
camps widely distributed throughout
The country where they have been fed
absolutely free of any cost to them
and at an expense to fhe government
Of $4,000 Il month They have also
received all necessary medical al
tendance free of charge. some OF these
little colonies have even seen their
numbers increased ag births that have
occurred uuda the most favorable con-
dit0us
"AH the civilian camps are under
the general direction OF he interior de-
paremaut. Order is generally main
raiHed by q comm5ssafF of police who
receives the requests and complaints
of the iuteruad and saparvises their
correspondence There has been lit.
Tie for the c0mmissaries To- da. how
ever. for the needs 81 the taterne8
have. so TAR ass possible been aBEiei-
DaEed 10y 5he government
"Eg one iu France has had less r4a-
son to complain than these people who.
feel their position keenly for the most
part and appreciate that we have done
what we could 1o make that position
less painful
The Germans. Austriaas and Turks +.
who have merjted the exceptional priv.
aLT5E H- a AE5LAEAsE permit nave tEE s#H .
same measure escaped seq8es5rareu .
OF their property. I'm general thaE
have showed themselves worthy If the .
favor"
Germans and AusrfaHs 10 whom
residence permits were accorded have
themselves given Fsrv little trouble il
is stated at the prefecture of police f
Their supervision however. has been
quite a burden because Of the natural +
suspicion In which they we're aaId tH.
their Hetghborhoods. The prefecf has
been flooded with deuuaciatioas some
times signed. sometimes anonymous.
partly inspired by spirit Of revenge.
partly through excess OF patriotic zeal.
Many persons hava been obliged to
change their residence as a conse-
quence bur the number of residence +
permits that have been withdrawn is
insignificant.