Evening star., 1926-06-15
|NDO-CH|NA PEOPLE
THREATEN TROUBLE
Communistitc Activities Are
Blamed by French for Ma
tionaIiStic Ferment.
Correspondence of The star and the Chicago
Daily News.

Daily News.
PARIS, June 15.-Following grave
troubles in Morocco and Syria unrest
is beginning to be felt in still an
other great French colony-namely,
Indo-China. This colony, which Is
-four times as large as France ana
has n native population of 20,o0O.Oo0,
is held by some 10000 French col
onists and administrators ana ohly
1900 white soldiers.
Until recently it has been develop
ing peaceably. But the new Asiatlc
nationalism, as manifested IN the
Philippines, the Dutch East Indies,
India and China. is spreading. Bol-
shevist agitation is at work and the
ferment has been quickened, 1t IS
said. by the policies of the new
French governor general, the trench
Socialist, Alexandra Narenne. whose
humanitarian idealism, proletarian
svmpathies and ignorance OF native
psvchology are declared by his fu-
merous critics to have worked havoc
Limited Native Power.
Mr.. Narenne's first act, last NoNcm-
her. it is stated, was to take adEan-
tage Of the death Of Khai Dlnh'
King of Amman, to put through
new charter limiting henceforth the
power of the native sovereign 70
merely ceremonial functions. The helr,
a 12-year-old boy, now In SChool III
France. was persuaded 10 sign tht
renunciatory document on iaiSe pre-
lenses. according to Il French deputy,
Ernest Outrey. A few weeks later
NJ. Narenne made a Socialist speech
looking forward to the ultimate indie
p,ndcnce of the "Indo-Chinese ma
lion" on being reprimanded by the
ministry of colonies for the uttefanceS
ne replied he was responsible only 70
The French legislature.
He took as advisers native national
,st agitatorS. some Of whom are S&tl'i
to have had police records lie caused
the pardon Of the revolutionary ie'"-
~ phan- -Boy.Chan, implicated in a
hnn3h-throwing outrage. He brought
about the acquittal of the assaSslnS
Of a French official. killed while on a
tYy-collecting mission in village.
Nine. Neronne offended Frenc colo
nsts by refusing to draw color llne
socially. on one occasion While she
received certain native Colored women
uf no particular standing she kept
Nine Andlauer. wife of the french
commanding general, waiting in the
hail.
Ordered to Arm.
Meanwhile the Third Internationale,
through the Chinese section IN Can
ION. issued a circular saying that the
:~dvent of NJ. NareNno was favorable
To an increase Of revolutionary actlN-
in. Local Communist organizations
Lave been ordered To arm for combat.
IIachinc gums are promised them.
Yhtv are urged to corrupt, il possible,
The workers in the government an
senal.
An initial sum of $4,000 has been
sent them for propaganda, They are
iold to spread the theories OF karl
Marx and of the Chinese boiSheNlst
general. Feng, and to report to Can
ION regarding the number and dis
tribution of French troops.
The result Of all this has been an
outbreak of nationalistic strikes, meet
ings and professions in lndO-Chinese
cities. under the indulgent eye OF NJ.
Narpnne. Natives have been pro-
mQted for the first time to high ad-
ministrative posts. The .siea of inde-
pendence, fostered by We Socialist
governor general himself, is gaining
ground. French civil service en-
ployes are discouraged. French colo
nists indignant.
Capital for development, alarmed,
The issue has begun to brew another
storm in Paris politics and NJ. Narenne
has had to come back to France to
explain, for the government already
has its fiji of colonial difficulties and
shrinks from more.
NotyrIght. 1926. by Chicago Daily News Coz