YOUNG NEW ZEALANDER
ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND. AFTER LONG INTERNMENT BY JAPANESE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.25 a.m.) LONDON. October 13. Mr R. W. Edgley ,of Napier, has arrived in England from China. He is one of 1.100 British and Allied subjects who have been repatriated from the Far East. Mr Edgley, a former student of Victoria University College, joined up with the Colonial Service in Singapore in September, 1940. In October of that year he went to study Chinese at Amoy, where eventually he was appointed Vice-Consul. The Japanese took him prisoner on the morning in which 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 en4'ist if he can be released from the Colonial Service.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1942, Page 4
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