American Tanker Reaches Vladivostok

Northern Advocate, 5 September 1941, Page 5

American Tanker Reaches Vladivostok

(Rec. 2 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 4. Unarmed and flying the American flag, the first tanker carrying American petrol to Russia has arrived at Vladivostok, says a New York message. The United States is now awaiting Japanese reaction to the move. Another American tanker is expected to enter Japanese waters before the week-end. Ocean “Safety Zone” The New York “Herald-Tribune" says that Japanese interference with American tankers for Vladivostok would not bring war with the States but it would bring Russian and American resentment.

Commenting on the establishment of an ocean “safety zone” which is proposed by Japan, the “Herald-Tribune ’ says the democracies might take a leaf out of the Jaoanese book. The British and Dutch might agree, that Japanese merchant shipping which sought to navigate any passage between Singapore and Australia would be out of bounds while the United States, New Zealand and Australia - might declare the Pacific Ocean east of a line drawn from the Aleutian Islands through Hawaii and Samoa to the Antipodes, was a self-defence zone.