NEW HEBRIDES
FRANCE AND HER COLONIES CANNOT SELL ANY POSSESSIONS. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Judge Hcimburger, of the French 'Colonial Service., en route to New ■Caledonia, interviewed', 'was emphatic that Franco would never sell any possessions in Oceania. On the contrary, she was consolidating her colonial empire by means of a costly wireless installation, and the French Pacific, islands were a necessary link in the chain of stations extending from Paris through the colonies. The wireless plant would have an effective range, of 5700 miles. He indignantly repudiated the suggestion that the? French authorities countenanced the sale of liquor to the natives of the islands. If abuses existed in the New Hebrides or elsewhere the Government was pursuing a humane policy, and would surely suppress them. He added that it, was not for monetary or economic consideration at all. France could not relinquish any portion of the islands in the Pacific without staining ■the names of her heroic self-sacrificing navigators of past centuries. They could not stain their memory without staining ike national honour.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 8 July 1914, Page 5
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