FRENCH ESTABLISHMENTS IN INDIA. Territories in India which still belong to France. They are very small, their total extent being but 197 square miles, with an estimated population of 270,000. They are the French colonies of Chandernagore, Pondicherry, Kari kal, MaliC, and Yanaon. The imports before the World War were valued at nearly ten million francs and their exports at over thirty-seven million francs. It was not until 1920, however, that their trade began to recover from the serious interruption of the years 1914-1918.
FRENCH French pos sessions in extreme southeast Asia, in cluding the colonies of Cochin-China. Tongking, Laos, Annam, Cambodia, and Battambang. They are all grouped near the little kingdom of Siam whose terri tories have been steadily encroached upon by the French. Their estimated area in 1920 was 256,200 square miles and their population about 17,500,000. Although missionaries from France were in the country as early as Louis VIV.'s time and occasional interference by French soldiers occurred in and just after Napoleon I.'s rule, it was not until
the Second Empire that the real con quest of these possessions was begun and completed. From the institution of the Third Republic the accessions to French power in this region have been steadily growing until France is now suspected of desiring to include Siam in its "sphere of influence." The number of French in Indo-China is very small, practically all of them being connected with the administra tion. The capital is Saigon, where the governor-general resides, who has oversight over the four provincial gov ernors. The exports consist largely of rice and rice products and about half the trade is done with France and the other French colonies. The French have built nearly 1,200 miles of railways in the country and have also trained and equipped a small native army under French officers, part of which took part in the European battlefields of 1914 1918.