The International Relief Commission in Nanking, which has hitherto been: looking after Chinese refugees in the unrecognized safety fon, became "automatically dissolved" when the autonomous government of the fallen Chinese capital came into office, a spokesman of the Japanese Embassy said yesterday afternoon it reply to questions relating to the refusal by the Japanese authorities to Erant the Commission permission to transport food, medical and other Asked whether that meant that any future requests from the LR.C. would be disregarded, the spokesman said that {he Relief Commission had been "automatically dissolved and it is inconceivable that a dissolved body should require any such foodstuffs.'
"The International Relief Commission," he went on, "appears to be on the surface a charitable organization. If you recall the circumstances leading up to its establishment, however, it was established at the request of, or with the sanction of, the former Chinese government and the Chinese authorities in Nanking handed over to this commission the administration of the so-called refugee area.
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