CAPTIVE IN CHINA
FORMER NAPIER MAN RELEASED BY JAPANESE (11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 13. Mr. R. W. Edgley, of Napier, has arrived in England from China. He is ond of 1100 British and Allied subjects who have been repatriated from the Far East. Mr. Edgley, a former Victoria University College student, joined up with the colonial service in Singapore in September, 1940. We went to study Chinese at Amoy in October where eventually he' was appointed vice-Consul. The Japanese took him prisoner on the morning they declared war and interned him at his house until April, 1942, when they sent him to Shanghai where he remained for four months until he sailed I for Lourenco Marques, en route for England. He hopes to enlist if he can be released from the colonial service.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19421015.2.18
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20915, 15 October 1942, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
133CAPTIVE IN CHINA Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20915, 15 October 1942, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in