U.S.A WILL APPLY SANCTIONS TO JAPAN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 173, 24 July 1941, Page 7

U.S.A WILL APPLY SANCTIONS TO JAPAN

VIGOROUS ACTION

Complete Ban On Essential Exports Likely United Press Association. —Copyright. Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, July 23. The "New York Times" Washington correspondent, reporting that the United States is ready to impose vigorous economic sanctions against Japan, says it is considered that the Government will express displeasure by all positive action short of war: Firstly, by stoppage of gold purchases whereby Japan is now obtaining dollar exchange; secondly, by freezing all Japanese assets in the United States; and, thirdly, by imposition of a complete embargo on essential exports to Japan, including petroleum products.

Events are moving more rapidly in the Tar East and are approaching a* climax, with President Roosevelt preparing the American people for likely dramatic action, said an earlier message. According to the "New York Times." information v/hich has reached high Government quarters indicates that Japan intends almost immediately to march troops southward from China, if indeed the inarch has not already begun. Reported Ultimatum Sent diplomats in Washington reported that Jajian had sent an ultimatum to Indo-China demanding in effect the right to "protect the colony against aggression." The chief of the Japanese Army mission to French Indo-China, Major-General Raishiro Sumita, on his return to Hanoi, Indo-China, after a flying visit to Tokyo, conferred with Admiral Decoux, the French Governor. The interview is believed to have been concerned with Japanese demands for the use or naval and air bases in IndoChina.

The Vichy Government is exerting strong pressure on Admiral Decoux, but it is hoped he may be able to resist it. A Vichy message states wiat negotiations about Indo-China are already under way between France and Japan.

President Roosevelt told Press representatives to-day that a dispatch iw!? d by the United States Navy department disclosed that the Japanese Government had imposed a raKi pete censorship on radio and «"«e communications. The PresiBignifi 83 " 1 he re S arded this ste P as

Reaction in France Possible th^ rican diplomats predict that *"" trench Government's decision 7i2 rouse an unfavourable reaction an ce. Meanwhile a tight censorship has been clamped on the «Panese demands. I.*, Chungking report states that a «rge Japanese fleet and 30 troop S ports are moving southward PrS ng ll l e re Ported refusal by the fj®?* ll authorities in Indo-China to sairi *u e Ja P a nese demands. It is Dr£» % French in Indo-China are E* d!? resist - Japanese troops, ™s and ships are reported to be massed on Hainan Island.

AbSS ? e j" ng correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain the Tast ere ls a mowing belief that Md fPan ese Army in North China water e v,-^ ch^ kuo is undergoing Shifts Twenty troop trains CiviJ£ northward from Tangshan. uvUian rail traffic in North China is •ku* Tu y u res tricted, and in Manchu-Genei-ai nl been sto PPed altogether. 2 karnura nas returned to S^« fter T ms Pecting the military "nation inJnner-Mongolia.