EFFECT OF SANCTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 November 1935, Page 5

EFFECT OF SANCTIONS

League Committee Establishes a Vigilance Organisation EXTENSION OF EMBARGO FURTHER ARTICLES INCLUDED (British Official Wireless), Received 1 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, Nov. 6. Tlie 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 foi extending the list of commodities subject to the embargo.

The resolultion states: “It is expedient that the measures of the embargo provided in proixosal 4 should be extended to the following articles as soon as conditions become necessary to render this extension e/fecttive: Petroleum and its derivatives, by-products and residues; pig iron, iron and steel, including alloy, steels, coal, including anthracite and lignite, coke and their agglomerates, as well as fuels derived therefrom. If replies received by the committee to this proposal and the information at its disposal warrant, the Committee cl Eighteen will propose to the Government a date for bringing these measures into force.”

Lord Stanhope, Undei’-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, represented Britain on the Committee of Eighteen at Geneva when it received reports from several sub-committees, whieb it approved. The committee also established a vigilance committee composed of representatives of Britain, France, Rus. sia, Spain, Poland, Roumania, Greece, Jugo-slavia and Sweden to observe the application of sanctions by 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 League States are to enforce after November IS.

American Traders Ignore President Roosevelt’s Warning

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6

Reports to the Commerce Department indicate that President Roosevelt’s warning against trade with belligerents in the war between Italy and Ethiopia is being completely ignored by exporters of essential maWftdsl The major part of the trade from Gulf of Mexico ports, New Orleans and other points reports the greatest activity for several years. Petroleum and cotton are the principal exports, for example, shipments of 'ptroleum to Italy in August and September increased by 600 per cent, over those for the corresponding months of 1934. The department indicated that nothing would be done in the matter except compile reports and forward them to the State Department for consideration.