MALTA’S GOVERNOR
GIVES UP OFFICE. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY; May 20. The Colonial Office announce that General Sir John Du Cane has applied for permission to relinquish, lor private reasons, lii.s appointment as Governor and Cominander-iii-Chief of Malta. a s from the 30th of June next, and that the King has been pleased to accede to his request. Permission has also been accorded him to retire from the army as from the same date. Sir John du Cane lias been Governoi and Commander-i 11-Chief at Malta since 1927, prior to which date he had been for three years in Command of the British Army of the Rhine. During the later part of the war, he commanded the Fifteenth Corps on tile‘Western Front, and afterwards was the British representative with Marshal Focli.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1931, Page 6
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130MALTA’S GOVERNOR Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1931, Page 6
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