"Forgotten" Garrison On
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Wallis Island
Noumea, August 20.
THE Bulletin of Commerce, Noumea, recently drew attention to a “for gotten” garrison of 17 soldiers and their families, sent to Wallis Island in the dark days of four years ago, when M.
Sautot was Governor of New Caledonia.
As a result, the “Cap Tarifa” has been sent to bring them back to Noumea.
M. Fourcade, one of the Civil service chiefs in Noumea, has also gone to Wallis to report on conditions there.
The US Forces, for some time, had a forward weather station on the highest point of Wallis Island, which lies north wards of Fiji and Samoa.