AID TO CHINA
BRITAIN AND AMERICA
ATTITUDE OF JAPAN
NOT DEEMED SANCTIONS
SELF -XVV PICIE NOT A I M
(Elec. Ttil. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. March 10, 2.30 p.m.) TOKIO. March 9. The Japanese Foreign Minister. Mr. Hachiro Arila. speaking in the Diet, said thai the Government did not regard British and American help to China as in the nature of sanctions against Japan. An economic blockade was not easily achievable, and the grave consequences were well known to those Powers.
Some of the plans whereby it is hoped that Japan will be invulnerable in three years against economic sanctions were announced in the Diet. It is expected that by 1942 Japan will have increases over the 1938-39 period ranging up to 100 per cent. It is predicted that Japan, Manchukuo and China will toe self-sustaining in threeyears in iron, steel, coal, light metals, zinc, fertilisers, rolling stock, automobiles and shipping.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 7
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