The Archive · 1939

Pressmen Besiege Visiting Envoy

Sir Robert Craigie Denies — Trip to Shanghai Has Any — Political Significance

Besieged by a host of reporters and press photographers, the majority of whom were representatives of Japanese newspapers and news agencies, Sir Robert Craigie, HM. Ambassador to Tokyo, had a hectic me-ied answering hundreds of questions which were fired at him in quick succession yesterday afternoon, shortly after his arrival in the Canadian Pacific liner, Empress of ada, from Japan on a short visit o Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, H.M. Ambassador to China.

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