to China Yokohama, Jan. 27.
Mr, Robert Haas, director of the transit and communications—section arrived here to-day on board the s.
Empress of Canada on his way to Chit ina for a three-months' tour of inspection in various provinces as chairman of the League's. Committee on Techinical Ca-operation with China. Mr. Haas, who visited China and Manchuria in 1992 as chief secretary to the Lytton Commission of Enquiry into the S: no-Japanese dispute, is accompanied Mme Haas on this trip.
Denying that he had. any political mission to perform, Mr. Haas told Rewspaper reporters here that he was going t> China to advise the National Government on various technical matters under the terms of a decision of the League Council "I have not received any orders meet "Japanese officials," Mr. Haas added, but said that he was willing to meet Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu. Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, if! Yoshi the latter would want to see him, as he had met Mr. Shigemitsu befor "It it is true that Mr. Wang Ching-wei, president of the Executive Yuan has said that Coaneiat assistance from Japan was desirable "and that cooperation oe2veen Japan and China was something to be hoped for, 1 believe he did much to ald the peace: of the Far zest.
Mr. Haas iz expected to carry on the work of Dr. Ludwig Rajchmann, League official who left China more than a year agc—Rengo, Twe Belgian Minister to China, Baron Jules Guillaume, has returned fo South China from Manila and is in Canton preparatory to leaving on a tour of Kuangtung province.
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