Chungking, Mar. 5.
Stories of Russian occupation or administration of Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan) are, in his opinion, untrue, declares Sir Stafford Cripps, British leftist leader, who has just returned here from China's far west.
"There was no evidence of either at any place I visited," he states.
After interesting conversations with Chinese Government leaders at Chungking, Soviet leaders in Moscow, and a trip to Sinkiang by air, Sir Stafford is leaving today by plane for Hongkong en route to Shanghai, Japan and the United States.
The British political leader and his secretary were the first Englishmen to use the Sino-Soviet air service, flying direct from Chungking to Moscow by way of Chinese Turkestan.
Returning, the party had to resort to motor travel across the whole of northern Sinkiang as flying was not possible. They travelled nearly 1,000 miles over the important highway which connects Russia with China.
Sir Stafford spent 36 hours in Moscow, where he met a number of Soviet Government Officials "for the purpose of gaining a fuller elucidation of the policies being pursued by Russia in international matters."
It is emphasized, however, that the visit was of a "wholly private character."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.