RETURN FROM CHINA
New Zealand Vice-Consul (Special Correspondent, N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, October 13. Mr R. W. Edgley, of Napier, has arrived in England from China. He was one of 1100 British and Allied subjects who were repatriated from the Far East. Mr Edgley, who is a former student of Victoria University College, joined the Colonial Service in Singapore in September 1940. He went to study Chinese at Amoy in October and was eventually appointed Vice-Consul there. The Japanese took him prisoner the morning they declared war and interned him in his house until April 1942, when they sent him to Shanghai, where he remained for four months until he sailed for Lourenco Marques en route for England. He hopes to enlist if he can be released from the Colonial Service.
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Southland Times, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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132RETURN FROM CHINA Southland Times, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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