MORE PRESSURE ON CANTON
Fresh Advances
CHIANG'S 'PLANES FLY
240 SORTIES
HONG-KONG, OCTOBER 12. According to usually reliable reports Chinese Nationalist 'planes, in a desperate attempt to halt the drive on Canton, to-day flew, 240 sorties against Communist advance guards pushing towards the doomed Nationalist capital. Communist regular forces, advancing ten miles in 24 hours, have entered Tsungfa, 35 miles north of Canton, and advance elements are reported only thirty miles from the city.
One report said Canton was blacked out an hour earlier to-night as new curfew regulations were enforced. The harbour was deserted. Ships which normally tie up at the city wharves had suddenly disappeared. This was attri- buted to owners' fears that the ships would be requisitioned for evacuation
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purposes. Two British vessels will con- tinue to my between Hong-Kong and Canton to help to evacuate foreigners and Chinese until the last moment, the. report said. Refugees are pouring into Hong-Kong by the thousand..
Chinese newspapers said that armed Communists were firing in the streets of Canton to-day and that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had arrived in the city on his way to Chungking, the proposed new National- ist capital.
Another group of 631 foreign evacuees of thirty different nationalities from Communist-held Shanghai arrived at Hong-Kong to-day in the French liner Marechal Joffre. The French, Swedish, and Dutch Ambassadors and the Portuguese Minister were among the passengers. The ship also landed 62 displaced persons, mostly White Russians, destined for settlement in Australia through the International Refugee Organisation.-Reuter.
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PUISNE JUDGE, TRINIDAD
MR. E.M. DUKE APPOINTED
It is announced by the Secretary of State for the Colonics, Mr. A. Creech Jones, that the King has been pleased to approve the appointment of Ir. Edgar Mortimer Duke, Solicitor General, British Guiana, to be Fifth Puisne Judge in Trinidad.
COLONIAL OFFICE INFORMATION DEPARTMENT,
Colonial Office,
Sanctuary Buildings,
Great Smith Street,
S.W.1.
Tel. WHI 2366 Exts. 526 and 527.
August 29, 1949.
Mr. Edgar Mortimer Duke, who was born in British Guiana in 1895,
was educated at Queens Royal College, British Guiana, and at the City Engineering College and University College, London. He was called to He was appointed Acting Registrar of Deeds in British uiana in 1929 and appointed Registrar in 1933. He was promoted to the
post of Legal Draftsman in 1944 and became Solicitor General in 1946.
the Bar in 1917.
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