Henri Sautot Promoted
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Prom Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Feb. 12.
THAT good Republican, Henri Sautot, whom the New Caledonian “brous sards” or “maquis” brought from the New Hebrides to be first Free French Governor, has at last seen his services to his country rewarded by promotion to Administrator, First Class.
As Governor of the Province of Ouban gui-Chari, in Central Africa, he last year attended the Brazzaville Conference of Governors and delegates from all French African territories. The conference ap proved a proposal that a mission be sent to Russia to study methods of rapid development in outlying regions.