IRON ORE FOR JAPAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23058, 8 June 1938, Page 14

IRON ORE FOR JAPAN

AUSTRALIA'S EMBARGO DISCUSSION IN COMMONS LONDON, Jnne 1 The Conservative member of tho House of Commons for Preston, Mr. A. C. Moreing, told a representative of the Australian Associated Press to-day that he had received a cablegram from Australia and had had a telephone conversation yesterday morning, in which it was asserted that a whispering campaign was taking place in Australia, where it was being suggested that the British Government had influenced the Commonwealth Government's decision to place an embargo on the export of iron ore. Later, in the Houso of Commons, Mr. Moreing asked whether tho Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, had consulted Malaya with a view to the prohibition of iron ore exports. Mr. Mac Donald: Tho cases are not similar. Mr. Moreing: Western Australia will feel upset if it is deprived of a market which is being supplied by a, colony more or less controlled by the Government of the United Kingdom. • Mr. Mac Donald: I understand that exports are being made, but tho Australian action was taken in the interests of Australia. Mr. Wedgwood Bonn (Labour): Then it may be assumed that the Government declines to take action to deprive Japan of the means of making more I guns. . This question was not answered*