Shanghai, Mar. 13.
IR Stafford Cripps, Member of Parliament (formerly Labour and now Independent) for Bristol East, and expelled British Labour Party leader, arrived in Shanghai yesterday afternoon in the J.C.J.L, liner, Tjibadak, from Hongkong on a world tour during which he has visited, among other places, India, Chungking, Sin kiang and Moscow. Sir Stafford, who left early this morning by plane for Japan, stayed overnight at the residence of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, H. M, Ambassador, whom he met in Chungking in February. He gave an interview to the press last night, during which he gave his impressions of events in Europe and the Far East, From Japan Sir Stafford will return to Hongkong and from there he will fly either to England or the United States, His trip, he stated, is purely a personal tow taken on his own initiative.
During the interview Sir Stafford dwelt mainly on the Russo-Finnish war, stating that he had every sympathy with the Russians in their desire to have a new frontier, although he did not agree with' the stupid way in which they were attempting to make these new {rons ters, Russia, he said, was concerned at the possibility of Finland being a base for some other Power in the event of a European war turning out certain directions, 'Therefore, and quite rightly in his' opinion, Russia felt that there should be a rectified tion of frontier between the two countries in order, primarily, to safeguard Leningrad (Sir Stafford, in the interview referred to this city as Petrograd).
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