STATE OIL MONOPOLY
ANNOUNCED BY MANCHUKUO
COMPANIES PROTEST
United Press Association—Dy Electric Tele.
yr.inh—Copyright.
LONDON, October 25,
The Mukden, correspondent of "The Times'' says that tlio Msuichukuo Government has informed British and
American oil companies operating in Manchuria that for reasons of national 1 defence and economic development, i and in the interests of the inhabitants jit has decided to create a State- oil j monopoly. I British officials hold that this violates ! j Article 30 of tho Nine-Power Treaty, j | The companies concerned are already \ j protesting to tho British and Amcri-j ! can Governments, asserting that the ] Japanese Government is seeking a j monopoly for itself, thus depriving! I nationals of other Powers of the right ', to legitimate trade.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 101, 26 October 1934, Page 9
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