Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1954Vol. XXV, No. 3

Papeete’s Police Chief

p. 31 · Read in the full issue

Page 3131

Moves On

lonsieur Frank Biesel, popular ice Chief of French Oceania for past several years, has been nsferred to another overseas I. Biesel is best remembered out- J Tahiti through his unorthodox :hod of successfully apprehend some seamen of a visiting ship rtly after he was appointed to nch Oceania. Some of his men e disguised as women and sent

aboard the vessel as she lay at Pa peete wharf.

M. Biesel has been succeeded by M. Georges Waksmouth, who arrived by Eridan, September 17

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