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Pacific Battalion in Paris Reviewed by d'Argenlieu
IN France, on March 5, Admiral d’Argen lieu, Chancellor of the Order of the Liberation, former Free French High Commissioner in the Pacific, reviewed survivors of the Pacific Battalion, who are at present billeted in the Tour Mau bour barracks, in Paris.
Most of them are New Caledonians.
Tahitians and New Hebridians, and all are volunteers. Since Syria they have taken part in all the fighting in Libya, and distinguished themselves particularly at Bir-Hakeim, in Tunisia, Italy and in the Battle for France.
After recalling with emotion the mem ory of the battalion’s dead, the Admiral congratulated all the men on their hero ism and their patriotism to France. He added that he counted on them all, who had been able to visit the Mother Coun try, to make known her real self upon returning to their homes. He hoped that frequent and keen relations would develop more and more between the homeland and its most distant territories.
Queen Salote of Tonga has returned to her home after undergoing medical treat ment in New Zealand,