Decoration For
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Governor-Elect
But Still Has Not Arrived in N. Caledonia
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Feb. 4.
rE recently-appointed Governor of New Caledonia. M. Jaques Tallec, the date of whose arrival in the Colony is still unknown, has been awarded the French Medaille de la Resistance with the following citation published in Algiers:— “Animated with an ardent spirit of patriotism, he took a leading part in the movement in Syria for resisting the armistice with Germany. Dismissed from office when the local authorities rallied to the Vichy Government, he was expelled to France, separated from his family and placed under close police sur veillance. He succeeded in escaping from France in 1942 in the face of innumer able difficulties, and placed himself at the disposition of the Free French Forces.”
M. Tallec’s military rank is that of Chef de Batallion.
In a radiogram to the president of the local Administrative Council, the Commissaire des Colonies at Algiers. M.
Pleven, promises that Governor Tallec “will continue the policy of confident and fruitful collaboration with the Adminis trative Council, that has been adopted by M. Laigret. whose work I much appre ciate for the happy manner in which he has conducted the mission entrusted to him.” [ED. NOTE.—M. Tallec has since arrived in New Caledonia.]