NEW CALEDONIA AND AUSTRALIA.
Adelaide May 19. Major-General Downes being inte» viewed aa to the work of the Defense Commission, in anewor to * question tv to whether New Caledonia holds any position of menaoo toward Eastern Australia, eaid he was decidedly ol opinion from information he had gathered, that there were about three thousand French troops there, ajqd that the male convicts to the number of about nine thousand were drilled with wooden guns. This drill was ol a nature to fit the men to take part in a land attack.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7868, 20 May 1891, Page 5
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