NOUMEA NOW QUIET
GOVERNOR SUPPORTS " FREE FRANCE " [Pee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 26. The impression that all was now quiet at New Caledonia following the appointment of a Governor who supported a free France was brought by passengers who arrived by the Honojulu Clipper. They explained that since they were accommodated on the PanAmerican Airways yacht Southern Seas, and spent only one night at Noumea, they had comparatively little opportunity of studying the situation, but they were convinced the people' were now satisfice] The passengers reported that tha French sloop that had been at Noumea had now left. They also brought a story suggesting that some of the supporter* of the Vichy Government had also left the island. . ’ Questioned concerning thc_ future of New Caledonia's substantial nickel trade, the passengers contradicted the popular belief that Japan was likely to obtain the bulk of the ore. They said the United States seemed likely to be the major purchaser.
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Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 2
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158NOUMEA NOW QUIET Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 2
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