POLICY IN EAST

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 111, 11 May 1940, Page 6

POLICY IN EAST

NO CHANGE BY BRITAIN

(British Official Wireless.) (Received May 11, 1.5 p.m.)

RUGBY, May 10

Addressing a deputation arranged by ttjie China Campaign Committee and representing wide sections of British opinion, the Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr. R. A. Butler, reaffirmed that there had been no change in Britain's Far Eastern policy and Britain would continue to be guided by the Nine Power Treaty and in the light of its obligations.

Britain would continue to recognise the Chungking Government as the national Government in China and did not contemplate recognition of Mr. Wang Ching-wei. or any other government.

Other points raised in the discussion were the Tientsin silver dispute, concerning which Mr. Butler said that there were negotiations pending in consultation with the Chinese Government, further credits for China, and the possibility of help for the Chinese industrial co-operative movement.

OBITUARY

MR. J. W. HENRICHS

Mr. James William Henrichs, well known in the printing trade throughout the Dominion, died in Wellington yesterday at the age of-74. Mr. Henrichs started in the printing trade with the "Rangitiki Advocate" in the eighties and later worked on the staffs of the "Evening Post" and the "Dominion," Wellington, for a period of 45 years. For many years he was secretary of the Typographical Union.