N. Caledonia
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Fifth Column In N. Caledonia
FANTASTIC stories of Allied defeats, and of the imminent return of Vichy emissaries have been sedu lously spread in recent months in New Caledonia —where 95 per cent, are for de Gaulle, and 5 per cent, are pro-Nazi die-hards.
Recently, the Governor (M. Sautot) announced special measures:— “My administration is alive to the dan ger of these cowardly attacks delivered daily by the Fifth Column members and has decided to put a stop to it. War rants are out for three persons, two of them Government servants, the other a private citizen. Serious measures are to be taken against members of two Gov ernment services who have been hostile to the new regime of de Gaulle since last September. It is not the moment, when victory is in our hands, to be discour aged, and so the Government of Free France addresses another appeal to all to rally round its leader, closer than ever, in the sacred cause of the libera tion of France and the safeguarding of French honour.”
Messrs. A. I. Biggs and D. A. Smith arrived in Fiji recently to join the teach ing staff of the Suva Boys’ Grammar School as secondary assistant masters.