JAPAN AND AMERICA
SHIPPING SERVICES
LIGHT ON SUSPENSION
(Rec. 9 a.m.) TOKIO, August 5. Mr. Ishii, the spokesman of the Cabinet Information Board, announced' that Japanese shipping services to America have been suspended, indefinitely pending, the settlement of the Tatuta Mara cargo-' case,, after which, the resumption of shipping will depend on whether it is commercially profitable-
He declined to comment art the Ru*« sian-American trade pact, because he said:, "Japan. dM not. want to- interfere with. American poilicy..."
Japan,, he saidy was not optimistic with, regardl to the future of trade^with America, but did not desire t&e total termination of trade. •
It is learned from Washington t&at the United Government is preparing to send' a vessel to Japan to evacuate the 654 Americans who were on. their way home and: are now stranded1 by the suspension of Japanese sailings.
The cargo of the Tatuta Mam is now the subject of legal action, in the United States and had to. be discharged before the ship was permitted to, sail.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1941, Page 7
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