FRENCH IN PACIFIC
FREEDOM MAINTAINED EMPIRE COLLABORATION NOUMEA, Oct. 12. “Close collaboration of my Administration with the British Dominions and His Majesty's Government in no way affects the complete French sovereignty of the Pacific possessions,” said the Leader of the Free French Movement, General de Gaulle, in a radio broadcast. He added that he had received a communication from the Prime Minister of New Zealand deploring fantastic reports representing French Oceania as a British protectorate. General de Gaulle condemned as “cowardly desertion” the departure of Colonel Denis, formerly commanding officer of the French forces in New Caledonia, and 100 officials and soldiers, accompanied by their families. He called them “fifth columnists.” A contemptuously silent crowd witnessed the departure of what the Noumeans nicknamed "Caledonia’s First Contingent.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20380, 17 October 1940, Page 11
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126FRENCH IN PACIFIC Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20380, 17 October 1940, Page 11
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