Three startling recommendations to prevent recurrences of the anti-Semitic outbreaks in Algeria, which cost the lives of at least twenty-three Jews and four Arabs, were received here today by the Minister of Colonies from Mayor Marinaud of Constantine, who urged a permanent guard of 500 military airplanes to patrol areas of the country not readily accessible the army and gendarmerie.
The mayor of the third most popular city also demanded that the present garrison of Constantine be maintained and requested the right immediately to mobilize all French citizens resident in Algeria up to the age of sixty. The Jewish population of Algeria is made up almost entirely of citizens of France, while the native Arabs have been loath to assume citizenship, going so far as to brand such action traitorous.
Gov. General Jules Carde, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns, as well as the French government, have approved M. Marinaud’s demands, which also include the request that an official fact-finding committee be nominated to estimate the losses attending the fierce Moslem pogrom. At the same time M. Marinaud asks that the proposed body be empowered to authorize the creation of a huge relief fund.
Those injured during the Arab riots, when whole families were wiped out in certain Jewish quarters, the throats of women and children slashed from ear to ear, have been placed unofficially in the hundreds. Property damage is reported to have exceeded $3,000,000. Seventy Arabs have been jailed thus far, receiving sentences of from two to three years each. Approximately 150 others are under arrest, awaiting trial. Unofficial estimates of the dead range from sixty to 100.
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