ARMS FOR CHINA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 May 1922, Page 8

ARMS FOR CHINA.

»—: PROHIBITED BY UNITED STATES. Shipments from the United States oi arms or munitions ~6f war' to China was prohibited by President Harding in an official proclamation issued in March. The proclamation was issued in accordance'with a joint resolution approved 31st January, 1922, by Congress, which provided "that whenever the President finds that m any American country, or in any country in which the United States exercises extra territorial jurisdiction, conditions of domestic violence exist, which are or may be promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war procured from the United States, and makes pflJClamation thereof, it shall be unlawful to export except under such limitations and exceptions as the President prescribes.

any arms or muitions of war from any place in the United States to such country until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress.'*' I The proclamation states that, where af xt is provided by the joint resolution that whoever exports any arms or muni ' tions of war in violation of the pro^ I clamation shall on conviction be pun- ' ished by a fine not exceeding 10 000 dollars or by imprisonment not exceed- I mg two years, or both, "I do hereby ' warn them that all violations of such i provisions will be rigorously prose-' cuted." j Powers of prescribing exceptions and ' limitations to the applications of the ' resolutions by Congress" were delegated ' by the President to the Secretary of I State.