EMBARGO EXTENDED

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1935, Page 5

EMBARGO EXTENDED

WIDER SANCTIONS LIST PROPOSALS BY CANADA IRON, OILS AND FUELS British Wireless. Rugby, Nov. 6. The economic sub-committee of the League, which is engaged in the coordination of sanctions against Italy, yesterday adopted the text of a resolution proposed by tho Canadian delegation for extending the list of commodities subject to an embargo. The resolution states: “It is expedient that the measures for the embargo provided in proposal 4 should be extended to the following articles as soon as the conditions necessary to render this extension effective have been realised: Petroleum and its deratives, byproducts and residues; pig-iron, iron and steel, including alloy steels; coal, including anthracite and lignite, coke and their agglomerates, as well as fuels derived therefrom.” If the replies received by the committee to this proposal and the information at its disposal warrant, the committee of eighteen will propose to the Governments a date for bringing these measures into force. Thrl Stanhope, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, represented Britain on the committee of eighteen when .it received reports from several sub-com-mittees, which it approved. The committee also established a vigilance committee composed of representatives of Britain, France, Russia, Spain, Poland, Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia and Sweden to observe the application of sanctions by League Powers and receive reports. One decision reached to-day exempts newspapers, books, periodicals, maps and printed music from the general prohibition of Italian goods, which the League States are to enforce after November 18. A Rome message says that the sale of goat’s meat and horseflesh is forbidden on Wednesdays throughout Italy. BRITISH NAVY NOT WEAK LORD STRABOLGI’S VIEW CONFERENCE AT LONDON London, Nov. 6. “The battleships Hood, Nelson and Rodney could blow the Italian fleet from the water,” said Lord Strabolgi at Portsmouth, arguing that the navy was not so weak as was represented by the Government supporters. Tn pursuance of the policy of conducting bilateral conversations which have been held between representatives of other great naval Powers as a preliminary to the coming naval conference RearAdmiral Raineri Biscia and Commander Margottini, of the Royal Italian Navy, arrived at London last night. On behalf of the Italian Government they will exchange views on technical matters connected with the conference with representatives of the British Foreign Office and the Admiralty. It is expected that the London conference will open on December 5.