A WARNING
PRESIDENT’S FIRST MOVE (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). WASHINGTON, September 14. President Roosevelt to-day issued a statement forbidding any vessels owned by the United States Government from transporting arms or ammunition to Japan or to China.
The President’s statement also announced that any other vessels under the American flag, furthermore, which attempted such transport of arms or ammunition to China or Japan will do so at their own risk.
It is indicated that this step does not constitute the invocation of the Neutrality Act. The statement concluded: “The question of applying the Neutrality Act remains .the status quo. The Government policy remains on a twenty-four-hour basis.”
The Washington correspondent of the New York “Times” expresses the opinion that the Order of the President brings measurably nearer the time when the Neutrality Act may he
invoked. The first consequences of the Order will be the stopnarro of the shipment of nineteen Bella nca aeroplanes, wh’ch were going to China from San Pedro, in California.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1937, Page 5
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