The Archive · 1941

Resigns Post

led Baron de Reuter In Total Control in 1915

London, Feb. 6.

After being the head of Reuter's, Lid. for the last quarter of a century, and having completed 40 years of service with, the company, Sir 'Roderick Jones, K.B.E., who succeeded Baron Herbert de Reuter in 1915. has resigned' his position as Chairman and Managing Director.

He is a member of the Council of the "Royal Institute of International -Affairs and of the Council of the Em-re Press Union.

acting às a Reuter corres-

pointed Reuter's South African editor pondent in South Africa he was apim London in 1002. He returned to South to take charge of Reuters in in South and Central Africa in 1906. He came to London io succeed Baron de Reuter in control of the Reuter organisation throughout the world after the Baron's death in 1915. Sir Roderick was in charge of cable and wireless war propaganda until the Ministry of Information was established, when j he was appointed Director of Propaganda,—Reuter.

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