NAZI ADVICE TO NANKING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 17 October 1941, Page 5

NAZI ADVICE TO NANKING

j GIVEN OVER JAPANESE HEAD Rugby, Oct. 15. i Evidence of the lengths to which the j Germans are prepared to go to run Japan’s business for her has reached authoritative quarters in London. Official German “orders” have been sent directly to the Chinese puppet Government in Nanking warning it that the United States proposes to issue a blacklist of the firms dealing with the Gor- ! mans and Italians in the Far East, j The Germans point out that this would j Be prejudicial to the Nanking Government and “suggest” various means of I combating such measures if they are j put into operation. j The first suggestion is the forbidding jof dissemination of the lists and instructions regarding them. The second I is suppressing of news of the damag- ‘ ing effect of the measure on the black- | listed firms. The third is punishing by ! the withdrawal of diplomatic priviI leges and other means any such dis- | semination by diplomatic representatives. i It is regarded here as illuminating that Germany should give such instrucj tions to Nanking without reference to I the Japanese. The taking of such a I drastic step when no such American I measure has yet been applied to the (Far East (only to South America) is j seen as a mark of apprehension at the j effectiveness of such measures of ecoj nomic sanction.—B.O.W.