RUSSIA ACTS

Northern Advocate, 19 October 1935, Page 9

RUSSIA ACTS

APPLICATION OF SANCTIONS

SIMULTANEOUS ACTION PLAN ARMS EMBARGO IS ON. [United Press Assoclation.-By Electric , Telegraph. — Copyright.l (Received 12 noon.) i GENEVA, October: 18. The Economic Sub-committee approved economic. sanctions* in principle. They added rubber to. the list of key products. * Russia has notified the League-ithat she was carrying out the arms and financial sanctions.-With a view to‘ensuring collective and, as far as possible, simultaneous action; the Sub-committee is asking the Governments to state as soon as possible before October 28 when they will be ready to put sanctions into execution. The committee will meet on October 29 to fix the date on which " the measures will be applied. The committee referred the British proposal for the boycott of Italian goods to the Committee of Eighteen. The Sub-committee approved,; the French proposal for an embargo on key products to Italy," which the drafting committee is putting iri its final form for the Committee of'Eighteen to consider on Saturday. . • V Belgium is the first State to rathy financial sanctions, of which’she announced.. acceptance, in addition to the arms embargo against Italy. Holland has announced that she will rigorously apply all sanctions. Norway also has banned the export of arms to Italy. Fourteen nations have now applied the arms embargo against Italy. These are Russia, Uruguay, Sweden, India, Irish 'Free State and Lithuania. Russia and Latvia have agreed to the financial boycott. • . A Washington message says the Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, today discussed the Ethiopian situation with, the French Ambassador, M. de la Boulaye, who stated ; afterwards that he had not touched upon the question of sanctions nor that of America’s attitude toward imposing an embargo on Italian imports in collaboration with the'League of Nations, Prior to the discussion, Mr (Hull had told journalists that the question of the United States joining an embargo against Italian imports had not been broached from any quarter. The indications are that-he does not expect this question to be raised immediately, at all. "

Officials doubt whether the President is empowered to . lay down such an 'embargo' in the absence of specific authorisation by Congress.

A message from Detroit says the Ford Motor Company reveals the fact that it has discontinued shipping trucks to Italian East Africa. It has notified , the Munitions Committee of the Senate to this effect. The company has shipped, to. East Africa, since January 1, about 2,200 trucks, but it ceased shipments entirely at : the outbreak of hostilities, and will not resume the shipping of trucks until peace is restored. • . 1 . /