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PARIS Wed. (10 a.m.) .—France has made a strong protest to the Indian Embassy in Paris following receipt of despatches saying that the French Administrator at Mahe and his family have been' “taken away in an unknown direction” by persons believed to be members of the Congress Party. £The Indian charge d'affaires was asked to request his Government to take immediate measures for their return to Mahe.
Reports from Mahe state that a French naval craft which arrived yesterday' left for Pondicherry with M. Perrier, Commissioner for Mahe, his family and other French officials.
An authoritative source in Pondicherry stated that M. Charles Baron, Governor of French India, the police commandant, and about 100 gendarmes left for Mahe today in a French cruiser.
FINED. —In the Taumarunui Magistrate’s Court today befbre Mr A. Coleman, S.M., the Ohura Cosmopolitan Club (inc.) was convicted and fined £5 and costs on a charge of keeping liquor for sale.
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Northern Advocate, 28 October 1948, Page 6
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