Perhaps the most ominous thing in the condition of France
at the present moment is the manner in which the Govern- ment has allowed the Anti-Semitic movement in Algiers to get out of hand. The Anti-Tuff, the organ of the Mayor of Algiers, M. Max Regis, lately organised a company of photographers to take shap-shots of any ladies who bought things at Jewish shops. These photographs are to be enlarged and placed in the office windows, in order, of course, to hold the ladies who deal with Jews tin to popular odium. Another example of how the persecution of the Jews is acquiesced in by the authorities is shown by the following story. Last March a French firm represented in Algiers by a Jew informed its agent that, owing to the Anti-Semitic agitation there, it felt obliged to rescind its contract with him. "The agent went to law, appealing for redress to the Montelimar Court, which. however, refused to admit his right to damages, ' considering that it was a case of force nude ore,' and ordered him to pay the costs." As the Paris correspondent of the Times says, such incidents show that after seventy years of occupation the French have not improved on the government of the Dey.
