New Britain herald., 1930-05-09
President Doumergue Pays Visit To Algeria In Honor of Its First
 Hundred Years of Frances Rule
Colonial Possession Is Nearly Five Times As Large As Mother Coun- try in Europe.
Agters. May 2 .P-Alger.s vaoso

AIgiers, May .P-Alger.s. v1oso centenary Of French conquest and rule President Doume~guo ohyoryea hy his visit this week. often Is called q New France.'
 Nearly five tIma tHa sj1a O rrana. stretching more than rHa u.s.a= alcr- the Mediterranean coast ot No-norr Africa # extends deep uar. into rhe once aTesone and m1stcrro4s Sa- hara desert where tourist now go 10 ston at good modern hotels
 All along the sea for nearly @"n miles back IS strip more -nau ha1t the size Of France that is fertile and productive, yielding many things that France imports. Be.o-d that is 1he desert. not all sand az many imagine but o"en merely barren waiting for wsrs~ tgor a -aoNar- and showers do .an rr -na Sahara bringing ua green vaceta-rc..
 Where the Phoar-.'an- s7eg' over from Syria 3.o10 years ego. where the Caesars later he-las-- c-t-s and ruled, where rne --ar-4~.s once controlled There sre TOW 6.aa.oa0 people, French subjects. Ero1rrc grain. gathering oMvas. pressing oil making wine and digslng phos- plates and rich iro- ore from rhe ground
 Colonial Ne>uhule
 Thls ne1 Frs7c- E the iron. door to Frances great African coIonIaI empire, with Morocco 70 the west and southwest and Tuns. rich n olives dates. grain f~rlt. ron and phosphares on rho cast. adjoining Italy's Tmpoh,ania.
 A hundred years have passed since the French executed thz plans Napoleon made and ended forever the piracy ot the Baroary states. vet the Moslems are still Moslems. en- titled by the Koran 10 have fou~ wives, and the mvsterious yelled women scurry through narrow streets, maintaining traditions hand ed down through centuries.
 Scattered throughout Algeria gre the ruins left from the time thc Romans showed the way. The French are following their lead. re- constructing in more modern fash ion, vast irrigation projects. build ing roads and teaching the 5000 1og odd Arabs and Berbers to work.
 Arabs Shiftless
 The Arabs work. som etnes. but lntermitcently and from time 10 time they fold their tents and arc gone. . while the Berbers. accustomed 70 stone houses. usually dtsorderiv and dirty inside, are more industrious and are more m tune with indus try Of the machine age day.
 The Great and Little Atlas noun tain ranges. running east and west. divide Algeria into the Tell resIon . along the rugged coast. the most fertile region, and the Plateaux. be- '. tween the mountains, where sheep and cattle graze and where there are cork trees and oak forests
 Railroads run for gsao miles. hard roads stretch for $500 miles and lesser roads add .a.bn1 more miles to ways Of travel 1n-o the Ss- hara and down toward tEe once legendary Tlmouctoo
 Algeria revealed her agricultural possibilities to the French durl7r the war and now there IS serious effort 10 make the country real granary for some future emargencv. ! to develop industry to encourage colonizlng and to educate and train the natives not only for peacetre man-power but for a military reser- Volr' if the time should ever come to draw upon it.