New French Villages In Algeria

New villages have been founded in Algeria by the French government, with a view to inducing people to go out to them as colonists from the mother country and to cultivate the land around them, writes the Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph. The hamlets have received such names as Hanotaux, Voltaire, Rochambeau, Prevost-Paradol, Corneille and Canrobert, and there will no doubt in time be a Victor Hugo and a Carnot. The colonial office offers concessions of land around the new villages to candidates who are of French nationality, fathers of families, possessors of a capital of £200 ($1,000) and who had agricultural experience. The land will be lent, free from all taxation, for a minimum period of ten years. It is not expected that there will be many applicants for the land around the Algerian villages named after famous Frenchmen. The French agriculturists prefer, as a rule, to remain at home.