SANCTIONS DECISIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1935, Page 5

SANCTIONS DECISIONS

ATTITUDE OF THE POWERS LIST NOT YET COMPLETE ONLY 39 FULLY COMPLY By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Geneva, Oct. 28. On the last day for the_ 57 countries concerned to declare their intentions regarding sanctions against Italy only 39 have pronounced their •willingness to impose sanction number one, the arms embargo—and have already implemented their undertaking. The 39. are: South Africa, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Dominica, Esthonia, Finland, France, Greece, Guatemala, Holland, Hungary, Iraq, Iran, Irish Free State, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxenbourg, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, Poland, Rumania, Sweden, Siam, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia, Turkey, Russia, Uruguafy end Yugo-Slavia. „ Twenty-four have agreed to sanction number two—the ban on loans and credits—which is already in operation. They are South Africa, Australia, Belgium, China, Britain, Spain, France, Greece, Guatemala, Holland, Iraq, Iran, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, New Zealand, Rumania, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Russia and Yugoslavia.

Eighteen countries have agreed to sanction three—file refusal to take Italian imports, They are South Africa, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Esthonia, France, Guatemala, Holland, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxenbourg, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, New Zealand, Russia and Poland, the last-iiamed reserving the right to import motor-cars and ships at present being built at Trieste. 'Fourteen have agreed to sanction four—the ban on exports of raw materials to Italy. They are South Africa, Australia, Britain, Holland, France, Guatemala, Liberia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Spain, New Zealand, Poland and Russia, while South Africa, Guatemala, Liberia, New Zealand, Poland and Russia agreed to collaborate in mutual suport.

Switzerland, after a long Cabinet meet-

ing, decided "to place an embargo on the re-exportation and transit of war materials destined for Italy and Abyssinia, preventing German goods entering Italy. The Daily Telegraph’s Rome correspondent says that with sanctions looming large housewives are planning purchases to meet the inevitable rise in prices and shortage of commodities. Merchants are taking stock and are ordering all possible supplies. Train after train is arriving from Austria and Hungary laden with cattle, vegetables, flour, maize and tinned meats.

The northern goods stations are black with consignments of German and Polish coal. One train brought 40 truck-loads of poultry. ( . Genoa harbour is crowded with American oilships. Exporters from the Balkans and the Near East are expediting consignments before the sanctions operate. Importers, Government departments and manufacturers are buying hard. Flaming posters urge the populace to buy Italian goods and be proud of it. The Government has contracted for the supply of 33,000 tons of Brazilian chilled meat. FIBRE FROM CASEIN SCIENTISTS’ SCEPTICAL London, Oct. 28. The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press says that the general opinion of those engaged in research in artificial fibres is that Signor Ferretti’s casein fibre (a product from milk claimed to rival wool) is commercially inapplicable. They believe that it will not resist moisture or a heat of 75 degrees Fahrenheit, which is inescapable in the dyeing process.

H.M.S. DIOMEDE FOR ADEN

OFFICIALS’ RETICENCE

“Darwin, Oct. 29.

The cruiser Diomede has left on a reported non-stop run to Aden. The naval officials are preserving the greatest reticence about the Diomede’s call at Darwin.

When the Diomede arrived on Sunday an ambulance removed to hospital a sailor who was injured when caught in some machinery. He was left behind when the vessel .sailed. f