‘See Guam

and die!'

The French Press in Noumea was severely critical of the Guam organisation.

The weekly Le Journal Cale donien declared, “See Guam and die —of shame, derision, dis couragement and disgust. . . .

Guam is Waterloo. Or in the words of the chief official mourner, Guam is the South Pacific Games annihilated.”' The writer also describes the Guam Games as “an unpardon able crime” and as “the most dismal failure in the history of Pacific sport”.

Another comment runs, “From camping beds to foul food, lost sheets and an unfinished, danger ous stadium . . . there could have been accidents.”

The paper also deplores the “ineffective reaction” of Cale donian sports officials “who should have stopped Guam from holding the Games, instead of shedding crocodile tears over the unfinished sports ground, the di lapidated dormitories, empty plates, shameful ceremonies, events cancelled.”