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Pacific Islands Monthly, 14 January 1941Vol. XI, No. 6

Wallis Island Is Neutral!

p. 44 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Dec. 15.

FAMED as the lone French yachtsman, Alain Gerbault, who has been stay ing in Pago Pago for several months, has left for the smallest French colony in the Pacific, Wallis Island.

There he hopes to be, as he expressed it, away from the political dissensions rag ing in France and French colonies.

Wallis Island, with its half-dozen Europeans, wants to remain neutral in the present conflict.

Mr. R. H. Barron, Government dental surgeon at Rarotonga, left for New Zea land by the “Matua”, in December.