GUN RUNNING
AH AMERICAN PROPOSAL
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WASHINGTON, January 31
(Received February 1, at 1 a.m.) The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives unanimously reported to the House to-day in favor "of a. resolution by Mr Burton providing for the prohibition of the exportation of arms and munitions or implements of war to any nation engaged in warfare with another. The resolution would prohibit private citizens of a neutral nation supplying ■belligerents, except under particulai circumstances permitted by Arts of Congress. Violation of the provision would entail a fine of 10,000 dollars or two years’ imprisonment. Mr Porter (chairman of the committed said ho hoped that if Congress parsed the resolution similar action would bo taken in Britain, Japan, France, and other countries manufacturing munitions on a large scale.
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Evening Star, Issue 19779, 1 February 1928, Page 5
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