Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1964Vol. 35, No. 2

Cries As

p. 49 · Read in the full issue

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A Little Girl Cries As Last Viets Leave

The last load of Vietnamese to be repatriated to North Vietnam from the New Hebrides sailed in the British liner "Eastern Queen" at the end of December. The liner picked up 302 Viets in Vila and 72 in Santo. She also took about 180 from New Caledonia.

The pictures above, taken by Reece Discombe, depict scenes in Vila on December 24 as the Viets assembled at the Customs wharf to go aboard the "Eastern Queen".

At right, a young man carries a bundle of possessions to the wharf; centre, a couple of youths display a portrait of the North Vietnam President, Ho Chi Minh; and left, a weeping girl covers her eyes with a handkerchief as she walks for the last time on New Hebridean territory.

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