STRICTLY BUSINESS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1934, Page 9

STRICTLY BUSINESS

F.8.1. FAR EAST MISSION

ENTIRELY UNOFFICIAL

(British Official Wireless.) (Received August 27, 11 a.m.)

KITGBY, August 25.

The Federation of British Industrie* Mission, consisting of Lord Barnby (chairman), Sir Charles Seligman, and Messrs. Guy Lock and Julian Piggott, who are going to Manchnkuo to study trade conditions there, left England today.

Lord Barnby, referring in a letter to the Press to certain opinions about political relations of Britain and Japan he is supposed to have expressed, in an interview with the London correspondent of a Japaneso paper, say* that some misunderstandings must have arisen, and emphasises that the mission he is leading is not concerned with .political questions, which are entirely outside its scope. He adds that he is personally not qualified to express au opinion on political questions affecting Britain's relations with other conntries. "The mission," he says, "is going to the Far East in an entirely unofficial capacity for business purposes and also in tho hope of making a friendly contact between the business communities of the respective countries."-