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From Our Own Correspondent

Noumea, Nov. 17.

A GENTLEMAN of Nazi sympathies, from the border of Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia, who has for some years been a Noumea contractor and house-owner, insisted on driving noisily through the town while everybody but himself was religiously honouring the five minutes’ silence in memory of the hostages murdered by the Germans at Nantes and Bordeaux.

That was on Friday, October 31. What one would call a typically Teutonic case of aggressive bad manners.

This time the authorities acted. Result; The expulsion from the Colony of Herr Weiss and the sequestration of his prop erty under the decree of September 1, 1939, dealing with those having “rap ports” with the enemy It will be one fifth columnist the less in New Caledonia.

A subject of the Mikado, named Tchine Mehissi. is by order of the Administration expelled from New Caledonia. Restric tions have been placed on his movements until repatriation can be carired out.

Broadcast to French Colonies

THE Australian Department of Information, in conjunction with the Australian Broadcast ing Commission, makes a daily broadcast in French of news, talks, and music for listeners in New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Tahiti.

Transmission is made from Station VLQ, Sydney, on a wave-length of 31.2 metres (frequency, 9.615 mcs.) and consists of the following items:—

Rev. D. Lloyd Francis, who has been a member of the Melanesian Mission staff since 1926, having served mostly in the New Hebrides, has joined the NZ Forces as a chaplain.

Mr. Henry Milford, of Apia, Western Samoa, is dead, aged 73. For a long time, he was chief shipwright carpenter to the old German firm (D. H. & P. G.) and later he established himself as a boat builder and trader.

Aust. Eastern Noumea Standard Time.

Time. 6.25 p.m. 7.25 p.m.

Announcements. 6.30 p.m. 7.30 p.m.

News in French. 6.50 p.m. 7.50 p.m.

Talk in French. 7.25 p.m. 8.25 p.m.

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