CHANGE AT REUTER'S
SIR RODERICK JONES
RETIRING
(Received February 6, 1 p.m.) LONDON, February 5. Sir Roderick Jones has resigned the chairmanship and managing directorship of Reuters.
Sir Roderick Jones, after acting as a Reuter correspondent in South Africa, was appointed Reuters South African Editor in London in 1902. . After a period back in Africa in charge of Reuters interests he returned to London to succeed Baron de Reuter in control of the Reuter organisation throughout the world, which he did on the Baron's death in 1915. He was in charge of cable and wireless war propaganda until the Ministry oi Information was established, when he was appointed Director of Propaganda. He is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Knight Commander of the Order of the Saviour (Greece), and ■First Class of the Orde. of the Brilliant Jade (China). He received his title in 1918.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 10
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