NEW CALEDONIA
FREE FRANCE SUPPORTED POSITION NOW QUIET (Per United Press - Association). * AUCKLAND, Sept. 28. 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 Honolulu Clipper. They explained that since they were accommodated on the Pan-American Airways yacht, Southern Seas, and spent only one;night at Noumea, they had comparatively littl* opportunity of studying the situation, but they were. convinced the' peoplii were now satisfied. - • '•'-■ :: "' • The passengers . reported • that. th« French sloop-that had beenrat Noumer had now left. -They-also brought-.? story suggesting that some.of thesup» porters of the, Vichy' Government h«\4 also left the island. Questioned concerning the future * New Caledonia's substantial nicM trade, the passengers contradicted tbd popular belief that Japan was likelj to obtain the bulk of the. ore. Thej said the-United. States seemed likeyi to be the major purchaser.'
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24414, 27 September 1940, Page 6
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