SIX ARRESTS
ACTION BY FREE FRENCH Six high Government officials, inducing the Governor, have been arrested n Tahit■. French possession about 1800 nilcs west of Fiji, states the Noumea (.'•respondent of the Sydney “Sunday relegraph.” The Free French envoy to the Pacific, J. Brunot, ordered the arrests soon Per he reached Tahiti. The reason for he arrests is not revealed, but a statcnent just released says they were made following certain incidents.” Those arrested are:—M. de Curtin, Governor of Tahiti; M. de Lage, his ide: M. Senac and M. Lemmonier, olonial administrators; Captain Ravel, ommander of Tahiti’s troops; and CapFatoux, M. Brunot’s own aide. M. Brunot is acting as Governor of 'ahiti. Captain Fatoux visited New Zealand s M. Brunot’s aide-dc-camp and interreter in April last. His duties included hat of financial and economi adviser, his position being due to his business xpeiience before the war. He was warded the Croix de Guerre for detroying a bridge over the Loire during he Battle of France.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 4 August 1941, Page 6
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165SIX ARRESTS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 4 August 1941, Page 6
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