The Archive · 1939

In Japan Denied Ministry of Information Work in East Outlined Tel

For the second tim as mar weeks, Mr. H. Vere Rodman, a: ant director of the Far Bureau of the British Ministry of Information, today again denied that £3,000,000 had been deposited in Japan to finance his activities.

The primary work of the Bureau, he stated, was to facilitate the tribution of photographs and news.

R. H. Scott, director of the Bureau with headquarters in Hong kong, would visit all countries with cope of the Bureau to estab act with the British communities there.

According to Mr. Rodman, his section will include Japan, China, Thailand, Indo-China, lands East Indies and the Nether-the Malay States.

"I am at present studying the possibility of establishing a pictorial magazine such as that which published by the British Governmen at the time of the World War,"

Rodman said.

"The fact that relations between Japan a have improved considerably signing of a non-aggression pact between Soviet Russia and Germany, is also very encouraging."—Domei.

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