Red Geography Is Mixed
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THE Australian Communist organ, Tribune, on May 27, insisted that recent events in New Guinea provided evidence of cruel oppression of the natives by the Menzies Government, and called upon the Labour movement to agitate for the release of the un happy men who had been arrested.
The effect of it was spoiled, how ever, when the writer got his geo graphy all mixed, and said that a police patrol entered a native village in the Mendi area and told the inhabitants they would have to pay a head tax and be controlled by a Government-nominated council.
Mendi is probably 800 miles from
with a crutch. fn deluded Ma&e R. Petitbon (wife of the Governor of French Oceania) and Monsieur and Madame M. vienne and children. M. Vienne has £ een manager 0 f the Papeete branch f the Bank of jndo china for three zr “ y Monsieur Gaston Sully, Secretary- General in Tahiti for the past two years, returned to France in mid- June. He has been in the French diplomatic service in all parts of the world for 25 years.