FRENCH PACIFIC ISLANDS
"tt ILL NEVEH BE SOLD '
ByTclCKraph-Prcos ■ AW-ojnt.ion-CoD yrisilit.
Sydney, Juh 8 JiulKo ol the I'ionch Colonial Sen ice, is en louto to Now Caledonia In an interview lie was emphatic ( in statiliy that Fiance would never sell any of her possessions in Oceania, on the contrary, she was consolidating hoi colonial empire by means of a costly wireless installation, 'and the French Pacific Islands weio a necessary link in th: chain ot stations, extending tioni Pans, through the colonies The wiroless'plant would have an oiri'ctivo range of 5700 miles The Judge mtlißiianth icpudiatcd the oiicgestion tint the Ficnch authorities had countenanced the sale of liquor to the natives of the islands If abuses existed in tho New Hcbndcs, oi elsewhere, the Government his pursuing a humane policv, and would smelv buppiess them. '
{ He added: "It is not a monetary or economic', consideration,; at. all; y.Francp couldinbt.relinqiiisli.any : portiqn. ; of'rlier.i ! islands' in tho Pacific, without;' staitiiiif.; ; tlip, _names; iff ;lier licfoic;. self-'sacriiicing .iiavipiators : of', the -past ceritiirics. ; Sliii could not stain their memory "without staining the,national;,honour," YY^Y:V ;
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19140709.2.65
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2197, 9 July 1914, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
178FRENCH PACIFIC ISLANDS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2197, 9 July 1914, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in