LEAGUE ACTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 264, 7 November 1935, Page 7

LEAGUE ACTION.

ECONOMIC PRESSURE.

Further Commodities to be

Banned Italy.

CANADIAN PROPOSAL

British Official Wireless. (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, November 6. The Economic Sub-Committee engaged in the co-ordination of sanctions against Italy at Geneva yesterday adopted the text of a resolution proposed by the Canadian delegation for extending the list of commodities subject to embargo.

The resolution states: "It is expedient that the measures in the embargo provided in proposal 4 should be extended to the following articles as soon as conditions necessary to render this extension effective have been realised: — Petroleum and its derivatives, by-pro-ducts and residues; pigiron, iron and steel, including alloy steels; coal, including anthracite and lignite, coke and their agglomerates, as well as fuels derived therefrom." !

If the replies received by the committee to this proposal and the information at its disposal warrant, the Committee of Eighteen will propose to the Governments a date for bringing these measures into force.

Earl Stanhope, the Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs, represented Britain on the Committee of Eighteen at Geneva when it received reports from several sub-committees which it approved.

The committee also established a Vigilance Committee composed of representatives of Britain, France, Russia, Spain, Poland, Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia and Sweden to observe the application of sanctions by the League Powers and to receive reports.

One decision reached to-day exempts newspapers, books, periodicals, maps and printed music from the general prohibition of Italian goods which the League States are to enforce after November 18.

WAR PROFITS.

U.S. Exports to Italy Increase

600 Per Cent.

THROUGH SOUTHERN PORTS.

WASHINGTON, November 6.

Reports received by the Commerce Department indicate that President Roosevelt's warning against trade with the belligerents in the war between Italy and Ethiopia is being completely ignored by exporters of essential materials. Most of the trade is from Gulf of Mexico ports, New Orleans and other points, where there is the greatest activity for several years.

Petroleum and cotton are the principal exports. Shipments of petroleum to Italy in August and September increased 600 per cent, compared with the corresponding months in 1934. Officials of the Department state that nothing will be done in the matter except to compile reports and forward them to the State Department for consideration.

MEATLESS DAY.

ITALIAN SALE STOPPED.

(Received 12.30 p.m.) ROME, November 6. The sale of goat meat and horse flesh is forbidden on Wednesdays throughout Italy.