Rapport hebdomadaire sur la situation politique et économique de la commune mixte de M’Sila, 5 juillet 1940
Description
The report contains several informations :
1. A “certain confusion and great discouragement” among Europeans and Indigenous people.
2. “An investigation is opened against three natives […] who have said publicly that there is no longer a French government”
3. Arrest of two dangerous escapees from the Bir-Kadem Penal Colony.
4. The harvests are in deficit.
5. “The cashs in flow are extremely laborious” concerning the collection tour.
Commune mixte in French colonial period is a neighborhood managed by civil servants French, Arab (indigenous) and Jews.
The document can be consulted at the documentation center, Institut Ben-Zvi. Appointment requiered.