NEW CALEDONIA.
ALLEGED JAPANESE INTENTIONS.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
MELBOURNE, A-igust 22.
In reply to a question regarding a rumor that Japan was negotiating with France for the purchase of W\v C.'tWlonifj. it was officially stated in the Ft i. nil House of Representatives that nothin: was known of the authenticity of the r> port. The available information indicted that from 4,0C0 to 5,000 Japanese wo:- resident in New Caledonia, as agrtinst 1.2..V) to I.oCO five years ago. There was some foundation for the allegation that most of thj new immigrants were Japnnes? ex-soldiers.
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Evening Star, Issue 14962, 23 August 1912, Page 6
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