"Snobbishness" In Noumea

From Our Own Correspondent

Noumea, May 21.

THE Association Francaise of the Red Cross in New Caledonia is adopting the town of Haguenau in Alsace.

This town of about 20,000 inhabitants, suffered severely in the fighting some months ago.

Unfortunately, the Caledonian Red Cross does not get all the support it might in the Colony because it is largely under the control of the local snobs, not all of them heretofore notable supporters of General de Gaulle.

Those who go to Governor Tallec’s parties are, generally speaking, disliked by those who are not invited, but the Governor seems to have forgotten—or perhaps he has never learned—that it was not the so-called “grosses tetes” or the French people from France who kept New Caledonia from going Vichy, but the Caledonian-born portion of the popu lation.

There is a lot of unrest in the Colony to-day. This is but one of the reasons.