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French Expect 100,000 Soldiers From West Africa ► FORMER AFRICAN PROFES SOR IN BERLIN ORGANIZES LEGION; FEEL HIGH , AGAINST NAZIS Paris, Nov. 16 (By Nancy Cunard for ANP)—“L’Afrique Occidentale Francoise— French W’est Africa,” the Offirially ^ Controlled Fr nch radio finally told us, “is able to furnish 1,003, 000 black troop?.” Those men art* of course not yet translated into soldiers, but he count having been made there the first figur s ©f the sort of number of Negro fighters who will, defend France are no wavaiiable to the public. This number, not.:, is only tha ■foo- the French colonies on jhe West African coast, the lands of the Senegalese, the Ivary-Coast ians, the Dahomeans, the Suda Tio? . Declaring “We know the Ger mans since our childhood! We know just what they are!’ a very lai *ge number of Cameroonian men flocked a few days ago in the call srnt out by the head chief of Yaounde who had asked leave of the French government to found a Cameroonian legion to fight on the French fibnt. He hah been a professor in th» School of Oriental Languages in Berlin! Cameroon will never forget-, and nover forgive what the Ger mans did there in the years be fore tV- World War—floggings and executions, imprisonments, and murders; ail of these while the country was independant. Al though passing, by these very means, ireio the power of Ger many. The eldest son of King Rudolph Manga Bell (paraimaumt chief of the whole country who was shot by the Gen-mans just before the great war) was the fiitst to vol ■nfceor. Legally speaking since Cameroon was never conquered, Hie should at present bo the king of the Duala division of his country.. "the "Petit Parisien” writes: Since the first days of mobiliza tion the Cameroonians have ex pt-ehsed their (sentiments towards France and tiheir actions are in accord with these. One chief has ordered to furnish the families of the m: bilized men with all the foads raffs as they may ne:d. Member • of tribes in the western part of -he country have already hr /ight Iby stocks of potatoes, t-gg. and chickens to ‘‘the ladies wlros i hu-Sands have gone off to defend our heads." 1 think these word11 deserve to become i n - mortal; one would like to see them written into a world-his tory in th ir own tongue. Such, and many other demon strations for France, do show this; rrt only are the German brutalities ever present in mem ory, but also he Germans were incapable fundamentally, with their creeds of racial domination (which have merely increased to “Aryan superiority'’ under But ler) to govern or administrate, even from their own point of j vi:w. Af icr all, remember that, j as a Cameroonian told me in Paris: ‘‘For us as a mandated people, there i* not conscription. 1 But we can volunteer." And they I have! Money too, is coming to France from French West Africa; the latest contribution for national How To Relieve Bronchitis Bronchitis, acute or chronic, is an Inflammatory condition of the mu cous membranes lining the bronchial tubes. Creomulslon goes right to the seat of the trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm, increase secretion and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulslon with the understanding that you are to like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis defense being the sum of 150,000 francs sent by a group of foreign tradesmen ex ablished there. Brridxh-African pap rs were telling us in July that nearly one-fifth of France’s »ran-power is in Africa; rapid transport across ihe Sahara in giant torrie capable of holding several hiund n men an! having a special re sistance to sand wer impor.an points mentioned, and it was though l <.e journey 'from northern . gal cen, re* would no, take nit- h more t!\n two days with these special lorri s. Whatever be the truth a 1 rout th s lightning raobili l tion < rf huge numfbem the fact is that general mobilization, not only at home but in and from all France's colonies has been carried out a« has tha of 'the transport from England of the British forces to France. Tho colonial commission Of the French senate has felicitated Monsieur Marid -l, colonial minis ter, f»r this effective achieve ment', and bras fltMdaeaed “i‘.H af fttlonate greetings and grati tude, officially, to the native soldiers an<l native chiefs. Madagascans are continuing to send war sub .criptions to France. Over 360,000 francs have come just recently. It would seem tha , •‘wherrae recruiting was not al ways easy in 1914, today the na tives are flocking to defend the French flag,” according to a mes sage received from the capiat, Tananarvie. As for British Africa—see I what sort of interest the Negroes were taking before the war even began: Only July 20 we read: “air mid pamphlet will soon b? translated into Yoruba.” Yoruha is one of ihe languages in Nigeria. The demand is so great that the gov ernment is distributing the pam phlet free! And chiefs in Lagos will distribute it, as the electri city company to its consumers! During tSie World War dome of the Gold Coast chiefs provided aeroplanes for '.the defense of the British empire. The “West Afri can Pilot,” of Lagos, Nigeria, wrote on August tf. “News has reached here of the proposed aim of the United government to es tablish an auxiliary air-fores re serve in the Gold Coast colony, i' e potentiality of British West Africa is being considered along with the question of the defense of the British Common Wealth of nat kins. However, we deplore the siwggestion that only iKuropeans will be required as reservists. We are proud to say that Africans will gladly u fend they? shores.” . In August also the sum of $4,- I 100,000 was allocated for the de fense of Uganda. Tanganyika, Kenya, Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sier ra Leone and Garrlhia. Quoted' in an English paper is a letter from Aina Onabolu, from Nigeria; “Gr at llr'J lin and Franco are fighting to protect the weak and to stop unjust ag gression. The sudden and unpro voked attack on Poland by Hitler has no parallel in history.” It seems opposite hero to add a quo ’ation from a West African pa per: “The African colonial peo ples any wide awake regarding their constitutional rights and any attempt to contradict and restrict '.those is to make the soil fertile for Nazi propaganda.” The paramount chief of Bastu land in South Africa and the queen of Tonga in the Friendly inlands, have pledged the support of their countries in the war against; Nazism. Commenting on the massed sympathies of the eololried subjects of France and Great Britain, “New Times and Ethiopia News,” of London writes: “Underlying the wide support of the colonials is their hatred of Nazism and all it stands for. 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Over 1,000,000 women have re ported marvelous benefits from Pinkham's Compound. Results should deligh t you! Telephone your druggist right now for a bottle. lowing on persist .<n& reports that 1 German submarines were cruis ing about the Caribbean sea such jovc&uti'in-s have been taken that these latitudes so nils tan' I from fcfurop, are fil ed with patrols and. with “passive defense,” as if th?y were another war-zone. A “state of emergency’’ is in force with censorship and curtailment | of me.ting., and free speech. A British paper speaks of William Patterson’s express'd I views: “Is it a Black Man’s War?” This Negro leader points l out that “those in Amsrica who j | hate and persecute N gross are j tho friends cf the Nazis. The I ornrr 1 »ffj of the Klan in the American legion, are bbrrbwing from the Nazi’s racial theories.! Tho flri.nds of Nazism are the enemies of Roosevelt and of the | New Deal policies. No, this is not ' a white man’s war alone. The ! Polish pec,pie must have ad pos sible support from the N gro people.” The Polish people -Today Po land is a conquered country. Many tens of thousands of Poles, living | in France aie however be'ng I -to into a s ns rate arriy which will fight on the French fron* and tno minis.o,- of public work do Mcnzie haa jus', made public hommuge to their great leader ! and patriot Kosciusko. Kosciusko | should be the,,, concern of every j Negro throughout the world: for it was he, Thaddeus Kosciusko, who went to fight against the domination of England in the American War of Independence, Washington chose him as his aide-de-camp. Hie received the grade of general, the Order of Cincinnati!*, the title of “Citi zen of the USA.” So highly was he tibough'J of. He was then 38 and returned to his own country' where, in the Revolution of 1794 he held out: against the King of Prussia fod over four months, was wounded and made prisoner, and later lib:rted by the Tzar of Russia. Da Monzie said: “Like the Black Virgin of murdered Czesto chowa whiah escaped '.the German bomb last September, the soul of Poland escapes always. It is dif ficult to overrun her; impossible to daunt her.” This is how they have teen fighting in parts of Poland against the Nazis. The uhlans of Colonel Pilsowski at tacked the armed tanks with lances at the end of which were burning brands which they tried to thrust into the tank’s open ings. Sixty Polish cavalrymen were killed before the 61st was able to accomplish '(his. Polish workers never forget Kosciusko. There is one in my own village and he said to me as we wire di hiking coffee with an American colored friend of 'trine who knew no French: “Tell him I am of the land of that great man, Kosciusko, who fought for tdvj liberation of the colored slaves of America.” Disgust and sorrow were felt by the Polish pa1 riot at learning thaS the*e slaves wee? not to be freed by the very fact of their having fought for the liberation of white Americans from the English yoke. He did what he could. Ho recognized tha!,i educa tion is a means of liberation and of progress; and he left Thomas Jefferson the Bum of $20,000 for the education of Negro children when he died. A vei<y different type of man, the first lord of the atbrrdraly, Winston Churchill, rwlp is half American, made an excellent cptn pairs ion the other day for which we salute him. His words were to the effect that no matter what the courage and skill shown by the confederates in the Amer ican Secession war the fact re mained that they “could not free themselves from the hoa-rible stain of slavery.” Today the Her man people could be compared to them in that they were poisoned by the monstrous thing that is Nazism. As I end these lines the radio hays: “There are tens of thou sands in Kenya, British East Africa listening spellbound to wireless broadcasts in their own languages, of news from England and France. White settlers, men folk, are trekking to Nairobi in great numbers. The womenfolks have taken over the running of the farms.” Who knows what sort of progress may come out of this struggle of the white powers to the black millions the world over? “We would like to see the African being given his rightful place in the scheme of things. Wo want a safe and contended British empire at peace with the world, but we claim that Afri cans must be given a chance to j scheme.” May these words be as play their own role in that j well heard as they are well said. Nancy Cunard Covers War Negro Press from French Front Paris, Nov. 16 (ANP-—Chief war correspondent from the French front for American Negro newspapers is an Englishwoman, Nancy Cunard, whose Associated Negro Press dispatchers on the part colonial troops are playing in hostilities have already appear ed in this newspaper A daughter and heir of the founder of (fchie |famou*s Cunard White Star steamship line, she bears the title of Lady Nancy ( unard but prefers being known an plain Nancy Cunard. Desert ing what she considered th “shams” of nobility many years ago, she has since thin lived de rm, ra ical.ly. For more’ than eight years Miss Cunard has 'been chief correspondent for th Associated Negro Press in France. 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