ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION 



TABLE 9 



103 



The comparative ^^ size in hectares and acres (in parentheses) 

 of administrative units in France and Algeria are as follows: 



TABLE 10 



In addition to the force listed there are 204 native guards 

 who are used as field interpreters and messengers. French 

 officers are usually accompanied on their field trips by these 

 native guards, partly for convenience, and partly as a precaution 

 against assassination.^^ 



'^ Commission d' Etudes Forestieres. 



^' Each year quite a number of iorest officers are shot from ambush owing to 

 the ill feeling engendered through the pertormance of their duties, especially 

 trespass investigations. 



