France's Honor.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 65, 8 July 1914, Page 5

France's Honor.

IN THE MEW HEBiSSDES. AN INDICNANT REPUDIATION. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [TJnttfd Press AssociateMf.J, (Received 9.50 a.m.) Sydney, July 8. Judge Heimburgcr, of the FrenchColonial Service, who is en route to New Caledonia, in an interview, said it was emphatic France would never sell any of her possessions in Oceania. On the contrary, she was consolidating her colonial empire by means of a costly vireless installation in tho French Pacific islands, which was a necessary link in the chain of stations extending from Paris through tha Colonies. The wireless plant would have an effective range of 5700 miles. He indignantly repudiated the suggestion that the French authorities had countenanced the sale of liquor to the natives of the islands. If abuses, existed in the Xew Hebrides or elsewhere, the' Government would he pursuing a humane policy, surely, to suppress them. Judge Heimburger added: "It is not a monetary or economic consideration at all. France could not relinquish any portion of the Islands in the Pacific without staining her heroic self-sacrificing navigators of past centuries. She could not stain their memory without staining -the national honor.