Inini

Marshal Louis Franchet d'Esperey, 75, once the youngest General in the French army and but one day older than its youngest marshal (Petain), stopped briefly at Trinidad last week on the maiden Caribbean cruise of the French liner Colombie, was welcomed by British officials and most of the populace. Trinidad understood what brought him. A courier had just arrived from Cayenne, French Guiana, with word of a drastic administrative reform inaugurated by Governor Bouge. Most of French Guiana is unexplored. Preliminary surveys show traces of gold, silver, lead, copper. There are phosphate deposits and valuable rosewood forests. But French Guiana, as all the world knows, is also France's penal colony. Young Frenchmen wall not go there to colonize. Therefore, by order of the French Government, it has been decreed that in future only a coastal belt 25 miles deep is to be known as Guiana. The rest of the territory is to be a separate colony, separately administered by Governor Bouge, in which no convicts will be allowed. This new French colony will be known as Inini. Marshal Franchet d'Esperey, when he arrives at Cayenne, will find the exploration of Inini already under way by trained colonial troops, and shiploads of Annamite laborers concentrated in camps ready to build roads and cantonments.

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