FREE RRANCE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1940, Page 6

FREE RRANCE

MARTINIQUE MAJORITY ■i f

(United Press Association—By Electric ; Telegraph—Copyright)

•m'Gojierak-do - .Gaulle’ ’MT .Jacques Desiyes, in a press interview] bete;’’’ sdftH “IT' Free' French' elements' ’' ga in ’ chiitrol * - of’ ■ Ma rtinicjlie Island' in the--West-' Indies',' where'B0 1 per dent, bf- the'population sympathise' with! Genera! do Gaulle, tlie United States ’\vould' : b(V granted ' the right of establishing -fi naval basb there.

AT NOTABLE ARRIVAL

RUGBY, December 6

The Free French forces headquarters have' announced that M. Richard Brunot, who was High Commissioner in the- Cameroons at the time of the French-German armistice, and who immediately took steps to continue the war against Germany, has just 1 arrived in "London. M, Brunot, who lias been in the'colonial service in'French West Africa for the past 36 years, lias offered his service to General de Gaulle. He link' been put in charge of the colonial section of the Free French headquarters.

After Serving at various' outposts, where he had been in close contact with the native population, lie occupied important posts in French West Africa, Equatorial Africa, and the Cameroons. The intimate knowledge of (colonial problems and prestige which M. Brunot enjoys with the European and native populations : in Africa will he a great help to Free France.