THE NEW HEBRIDES

Evening Star, Issue 15539, 8 July 1914, Page 8

THE NEW HEBRIDES

NECESSARY TO FRANCK. i

CESSION UNLIKELY

Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyns SYDNEY, July b ' (Received July 8, at 9.50 a.ra.| | Judge Heimburger, of the French Ci>j nial Service, who is en ivtute for New Cal donia, has been interviewed. He is et phatic on the jioiiit that Franco will n;v< soil- any ot ilor possessions in the Pad til On the contrary, she is eon soli da tine be colonial empire by means of a costl; “wireless” installation, and the Frenci Pacific Islands constitute a necessary hnl in the chain of stations, which will extend from Paris through the- French colonics. J his wireless plant will hare an effective range of 5.700 miles. 1 Judge Heimburger indignantly’"’'wepudit ate* the suggestion thaj, the Frenchflufeiki*:! rititw countenanced thi sale of h'Aiort^)' 1 the natives of the ]f i s x _ | isted. in the New Heljfides or efcwhere ! the Government, who jvere puciiin ■■ :l ' humane, policy, would suy>|y sujjdM them' He added ; " It is not v mouelfv or an economic consideration \t, a ljJ ' could not ichniiuish j.p r islands in the Pacific witfjut .sfiiiin.T the names of her heroic ant feJfeacriScJ.r* navigators of past centime) ar) ’ K he could not stnin their memory Jthfit staining ) her own national honor."l ‘ 1