Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 14 December 1940Vol. XI, No. 5

First Display Of Flag Of Free France

p. 46 · Read in the full issue

Page 4646

It was reported in international news, in October, that the flag of Free France (the Cross of Lorraine on the Tricolour) had been raised for the first time in West Africa. This is not so. It was raised first about July 20, in Vila, New Hebrides, when M. Henri Sautot, French Resident Commissioner, declared for General de

Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces.

This photograph shows three of the flags, actually flying. It was taken in Noumea on September 24, when New Caledonia celebrated the foundation of the Colony. M. Sautot, who became Gov ernor there on September 19, is in {he centre of the picture.

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