The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20
SEND ABD-EL KRlM TO
ISLAND OF REUNION
France Picks Future Home
of Riff Chief.

"8@aNH @14 N
years defender Of the Rim against the
armies Of Spain and later France, is
to be exiled. News from Paris puts
the Island Of Reunion In the lime
light as the future permanent home
of the Moroccan insurgent.
France carries a full stock Of IS
lands disable for exiles," says a bull
letin from the National Geographic
society. Madagascar was first sug-
gested for Krim, but the weight Of
decision falls 400 miles southeast Of
Madagascar on Reunion.
"'What good exile islands have you
nOwadaysT one may imagine the
French minister Of war phOning the
minister Of colonies.
"'SOme very good ones, indeed the
colonial minister certainly could re-
ply. There's Devils island In French
Guiana for criminals, and then there's
New Caledonia away out in the Pa
cihc, a soothing paradise Of the South
Seas. How about Madagascar? Lots
Of room on Madagascar. Splendidly
situated near the Equator. Or Re
union! There's a perfect retreat for
political exileS Forty-eight miles
long and twenty-fOur miles wide, two
volcanoes and only 1O7 vessels dock
each year
"Abd-el Krim Is quite familiar with
Europe. It may subtract from the In
convenience OF exile for him t. be set
down IN an island predOminaEtly Eu-
ropean. To be sure the ReuniOners
are not as purely Caucasian as the
British and Dutch Of South Africa.
Still, 10000 OF the population Of 49,
600 are classed as Europeans. In
deed, Reunion is a department Of
France. The commonly accepted de-
partments Of France are within $50
miles Of Paris. Reunion Is 1900 miles
by steamer and train from Paris.
Even the names Reunion has taken
from time to time show it's intimate
link with Europe. Like a lady fair IN
days Of old when knight and lady
wore ribbons Of the same color, Re
union has changed its name with the
rise Of new political cOnQuerOrs on
the continent. M~ascaFenhas was its
first name in honor Of a Portuguese
discOverer who sailed when Portugal
was a first rate power. Louis XIII
was In ascendant in 1913 when Fla.
court claimed It for France, so it be
came Bourbon island. That name
was impossible to the RevOlutiOnists
The island therefore became Reunion
until a new knight arose in Europe
when it became lie BOnaparte. Since
1S4S Reunion has been the Oficia
name.
Conditions, geographical, climatic
and industrial, have changed less FIRE
quently than the islands name. Re
union, ever since it's settlement, ha.
been a sort Of agricultural five-laye
cake. The shore level is marked b,
the gardens Of the ring Of towns
Next comes a sweet layer; the sugar
cane belt. Then a dark green laye
Of forests. Fourth Is the plateau re
giOn where European vegetables ca
be raised. The fifth layer is tn
brown Of the volcanic peaks. Onl
occasionally is Reunion cake frOste
with white snow because the war;
sea all about tempers the climate.
IF Mr.. Krim cares to examine
slice Of Reunion he will find It sugar
and-spice = and everything nice tn
second layer, as mentioned above, /
mostly sugar. Sugar and one Of II
progeny, rum. are the chief export
of the island and during the Worl
war it prOfted and perhaps prof
teered on sugar. In the spice lin
Reunion offers cloves. And thereb
hangs a tale.
"Our medieval ancestors loved I
"a Where the Twentieth centur
spends its surplus on six cylinder
the Fifteenth century spent its pi
money on its palate. It's idea Of
square meal was red meat well SCI
sOned. Seasoned well did not mea
a pinch Of salt and a dash Of peppe
Our f%Orebears dOused pepper on the
meat and stuck it full Of cloves. Spi,
islands or the MOluccas in the tangle
straits Of the East Indies were four
to be the native habitat Of cloves. III
Joy with which the Portuguese greetc
this discovery could only be eQuallo
today by the burst Of q Texas gushl
oil well They tried to keep the
find a treasured secret. But Il
Dutch, who came into ascendancy 7
stricted cloves to AmbOyna island Al
ordered their navy to destroy all 9th
Glove trees every place. In the Ia
OF death at the hands OF the Dutc
a man named POivre introduced Il
Glove tree to Reunion and neighbC
ing Nautilus, thus emancipating n
rope from the Dutch monopoly.
osranlum Town.
Many orchards OF Glove trees VT
their shiny evergreen leaves can
seen o Reunion. The Glove buds q
in clusters. First they are gree
then they turn red, when they q
ready to be picked.
Another speciality from which 3