Pathe Journal № 500 DJIBOUTI - CITADEL OF FRANCE (1940)

Newsreel №64912, 1 part, black-white
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Map.

The Suez Canal and the Red Sea on the map.

Court.

Obock - region in Djibouti.

The house with a plaque: This house was the first residence of the Count Leons Lakarda (1850-1936) - the founder of Djibouti and the first governor of the colony.

Locals.

The area referred to as Obock, in 1896, it was officially named the French Somali Coast.

View of the area from above.

Portraits of French colonialists.

The local tribe.

Dance and sing.

Port of Djibouti.

Top view of a modern city.

Buildings, streets, car bazaar.

Palace of the Governors.

School.

Lesson.

Medical examination of locals.

Building.

Port.

port infrastructure.

Extraction of salt.

Manual labor for the extraction of salt.

Mechanisms.

Salt Mountain.

Salt in sacks.

Djibouti on the map.

Perspective directions.

A train.

Railway station.

Railroad Djibouti - Addis Ababa.

In the dining car.

Commercial formulations.

Highway.

Border guards.

Border.

French post Bernard.

French flag.

Tomb of the border guards who died in 1935.

The troops from the local population.

Racing camels.

Working on stone works, dynamite blow up mountains.

Missile weapons at the border.

Aircraft in the sky (aviapatrul).

Modern ships guarding the port.

Tanks.

Review of local troops and equipment.

African Warrior on vone French flag

Key words

East Africa, Somalia, the city, the sights, the border tribes, the port, the salt mines, railways, roads, army

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