NEW CALEDONIA
JAPANESE INTERNED MANY SENT TO AUSTRALIA. TBOCHAS FISHING BANNED. The wisdom of General de Gaulle in sending a strong man like Admiral d’Argenlieu to the Pacific with a picked military and civil staff is' seen in the unequivocal firmness of the measures taken since the outbreak of the war in the Pacific. The whole tone of everything done here is: "We are ready to die if need be for the independence of French New Caledonia, but we will never capitulate to Japan ox* the Vichy collaborators.” The first measure taken was the arrest of all of the Japanese save for a few Noumea market gardeners. Many of the island’s 1100 Japanese are old men who have been working in the country for 30 years or more, and the wax' is the last thing they wanted. A deputation of these is said to have waited on the Japanese Consul here a few weeks ago to explain their feeling, and it is said that the Con'sul expressed his surprise that Japanese could be so un-' enthusiastic. YOUNGER MEN DANGEROUS. There is little hatred amongst these eldex- men. but the Japanese who have come here since the last war for commercial and mining undertakings are in a different category. These younger and more able-bodied Japanese came here for Japan and not fox’ the good of the country. They have fox - some time, fox’ instance, been shipping cases of copper and nickel coins to Japan, to help the Japanese war industry; and they have been making good money here to send "home” ! to the Emperor. They represent the danger of Japanese penetration in its more aggressive and virulent form. SUMS OF MONEY FOUND. Three hundred of these able-bodied men have now been sent to Australia for internment. Before they left there seems to have been a quarrel between them and the oldex’ men, who wanted to be left in peace. The older men seem to have had the better of the argument. Considerable sums of money wfere apparently found in the possession of the Japanese, and hidden away in theix* business premises, after their internment. These premises have been sealed by the police, but some of the seals have been broken by irresponsible individuals. The internment was carried out without incident, except that a Japanese shop in the Valles du Th’ (Noumea suburb) was broken into by two Javanese workmen and a few things were stolen.
All Japanese credits in banks and businesses have been blocked and their goods sequestered. Another order was issued forbidding trochas fishing, all boats being told to make for the nearest port, otherwise they would be seized.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1942, Page 4
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