Vichy "Stinks"
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Anger in NC Over Indo-China Surrender
Prom Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, August 19 jl/fEN prominent in New Caledonian ITI history were also prominent in founding the French Empire in Indo-China, which Vichy France has basely handed over to the Japanese; and nowhere in the world is this action more bitterly resented than in Noumea.
To mention but two names out of the past: Commandant Henri Riviere was the man who suppressed the great native insurrection in New Caledonia in 1878-9 Afterwards, in Tonkin, he took Hanoi’s citadel with a handful of men later meeting violent death at the hands of the Annamite Pavillon-Noirs.
Then Admiral Courbet, after being Governor of this French Pacific Island, was sent to Indo-China to bring order out of chaos. He won a series of vic tories which, by June. 1885, led to France’s protectorate over Indo-China being definitely recognised by China.
Men from New Caledonia helped him in this task.
Can it be wondered at that here the name of Vichy stinks in men’s nostrils?
The following have been elected offi cers of the Public Service Association of New Guinea, for the ensuing year: Presi dent, Mr. J. I. Merryiees; vice-president, Mr. R. E. P. Dwyer; council, Miss K.
Randall, Messrs. C. L. Anthony, J. P.
Burke, R. M. Youlden, Ivan Clark and F. Haslam; secretary-treasurer, Mr.
R. M. Wayne.