It was learned here today that a delegation representing Emcol and Freiland, Jewish colonization associations, called upon French Colonial Minister Marius Moutet and discussed.
possibilities for realization of his plan to colonize Jews in four French colonial possessions. North Africa, it was understood has definitely been excluded from the territories offered for Jewish colonization.
Madagascar has an area of about 241,094 square miles and a population of close to 4,000,000, including about 36,000 Frenchmen and foreigners. It is a mountainous island, having a moderately cool climate in the interior; it is hot, humid and unhealthful on the low coastlands. Agriculture and stock-raising are the chief industries of the island, which is 980 miles long and 360 miles at its widest.
French Guiana has an approximate area of 34,740 square miles. Its population in 1931 was put at 22,169, excluding Indians, having lost heavily in the last decade. It has been long the site of a large penal colony. Placer gold mining is the principal industry.
New Caledonia has an area of 8,548 square miles. Halfway between Australia and the Fiji Islands, it is 248 miles long. 31 miles wide on the average and had in 1926 a population of 56,165. Mining is becoming its chief industry.
The New Hebrides, northeast of New Caledonia, has an aggregate area of 5,700 square miles. The group of islands comprising this territory has an estimated native population of 60,000, with a British and French populating totaling, in 1930, about 1200. Its chief products are copra, cotton, cacao and coffee.
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