Tahiti Prepares A Welcome
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for French Cadets.
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Papeete, Feb. 27.
FRENCH Oceania—and particularly Tahiti—is preparing for the recep tion of the French naval training ship, “Jeanne d’Arc”, expected to arrive at Papeete early in April.
The “Jeanne d’Arc” (Commandant Auphan) left Brest, France, on August 10, 1937, on a voyage around the world; calling at Djibouti, Indo-China, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti.
It has been planned to have the native ceremonies and festival—cus tomarily attendant on Bastile Day each 14th of July—celebrated in April in honour of the “Jeanne d’Arc”.
The Tahitians and the natives of the outer islands are most anxious to make this a memorable occasion. The fete in April will, therefore, equal if not surpass in elaborate preparation that of July 14, 1937.
Mr. H. F. Tousdale, of Edie Creek, arrived in Australia from New Guinea by the March “Macdhui” on the first stage of a world tour which will em brace Africa, the East, America, and Great Britain.