Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1950Vol. XXI, No. 3

Echo of Vichy France

p. 19 · Read in the full issue

Page 1919

The Saigon Court Martial

IN connection with the tenth anni versary of New Caledonia rallying to Free France, Monsieur Henri Sautot. first Free French Governor and now Mayor of Noumea, announces that he has been able, as a result of recent inves tigations, to discover the names and rank of the members of the Saigon Court Martial which condemned 23 new Hebri ridean and 142 New Caledonian patriots, including M. Sautot, to death.

M. Sautot states that, although normally a Court Martial is composed of colonels and officers of similar rank, on this occasion the court included three generals, as well as a colonel and a colonel in the medical service. He will give the names of those comprising the Court to anybody interested.

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