in Syria
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New Caledonian Officials in Syria
IT is interesting to note that Frenchmen well known in New Caledonia have . become important officials in the ad ministration of Syria. Syria, last year, was taken from Vichy France by Britain, and then was handed over by Britain to the administrative care of General de Gaulle and the Free France Government.
Commandant Felix Broche and M Bayardelle, being supporters of the Free SS* Government of New Caledonia, entered the administration Photo, shows —On left: Lieut.-Colonel Broche, who commands the Free French Pacific Battalion in Syria. He is here seen at the parade in Noumea in May last. On the right: Monsieur Bayardelle % the Fr ee French civil officials £J^ la> Fo I rm F New Caledonian Secre tary-Genera!, he turned down Vichy’s offer to make him Governor, only a few days before the revolution brought Henri Sautot to Noumea from the New Hebrides. —(Photos by Dunn.) Mrs. Buckeridge, wife of Dr. E. R accident met Wlth a accident last month and for a few weeks was convalescent in Suva.
Miss Audrey Harcourt, clerk in the Secretariat section of the Fiji Civil Ser vice, resigned last month.
Lt.-Colonel Felix Broche and (right) Monsieur Bayardelle.