Tahiti Quiet

Britain's Loyal Allies

Fiom Our Own Correspondent

Papeete, Jan. 14.

EVERYTHING is running very smoothly in this Colony under present conditions.

Of course, the copra problem has not yet been solved, but, thanks to the generous assistance of the British Gov ernments, there is no severe hardship— as far as food supplies are concerned, at any rate.

The Government of the Colony is in the hands of men who know the require ments of the Colony. The present Gov ernor has served in many parts ©f French Oceania as Administrator. The Advisory Council is composed of representatives of old families who have been here for

generations. All ele ments sympathetic to the Vichy Govern ment have been elim inated and we now have an undivided loyalty to the de Gaulle Government and to the alliance of the British Empire, in every part of this Administration.