Death of Mr. C. G. Howell

Mrs. C. G. Howell, who is at present living in Sydney, has received a cable from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that her husband, Mr. Charles Gough Howell, KC, who was Attorney- General of the Straits Settlement until the Japanese occupation, died in a prisoners’ camp at Taiwan, in Formosa.

He was 48 years old, was educated at Cambridge, served in World War I, and he was Attorney-General in Fiji before being transferred to the Straits Settle ment. It was mostly due to Mrs. Howell’s efforts that the valuable Malayan Re search Bureau was established in Sydney in July, 1942.