"WILL NEVER. SELL."

Press, Volume L, Issue 15015, 9 July 1914, Page 7

"WILL NEVER. SELL."

FRANCE AND HEE COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.

AN EMPHATIC UTTERANCE.

(By CVoI-.—Ptm, A«w_a_tioa.--Cop 3 _ig_-.. ■ t., xr •t. SYDNEY, July 8. > Judgo Heimburger, of the French . Colonial Service, is en routo to New !• Caledonia. In an interview, ho was emphatic . that France would never sell any of . he r Oceanic possessions. On the con- . trary, sho was consolidating her colol nial empire by means of a costly wiro- • less installation. The French Pacific - Islands wore a necessary link in the chain of stations extending from Paris through tho colonies. The wireless plant would have an effective range of 5700 miles. Judgo Heimburger indignantly repudiated the suggestion that the French authorities countenanced the I sale of liquor to, natives in tho islands. If aouses existed in the New Hebrides or elsewhere, the Government was pursuing a humano policy and would surely suppress them. Ho added that it was not a question of monetary or economic consideration at all. Franco could not relinquish any portion of her possessions in the Pacific without staining the names of her heroic self-sacrificing navigators of past centuries. She could not stain their memory-without staining her national honour.