ROOSEVELT BANS ARMS CARGOES
GOVERNMENT SHIPS BOUND FOR EAST OTHER VESSELS TO SAIL AT OWN RISK (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 15, 8.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 14. The President (Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt) issued a statement forbidding vessels owned by the United States Government transporting arms and ammunition to Japan or China. Other vessels under the American flag, furthermore, attempt such transport at their own risk. It is indicated that the step does not constitute invocation of the Neutrality Act. Mr Roosevelt’s statement concluded: “The question of applying the Neutrality Act remains in status quo. The Government’s policy remains on a 24-hour basis.”
The Washington correspondent of The New. York Times expresses the opinion that the order brings measurably nearer the time when the Act may be invoked. The first consequences of the order will be the stoppage of a shipment of 19 Bellanca aeroplanes which were going to China from San Pedro (California).
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Southland Times, Issue 23306, 16 September 1937, Page 5
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