OIL FOR RUSSIA AND JAPAN
HUGE QUANTITIES FROM CALIFORNIA "GOOD BUSINESS TO DEAL WITH THEM” [By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17. The Californian oil producers umpire, Mr. Willfam R. Pemberton, giv- i ing evidence before the Congressional-1 Committee, said that more than 77,- ' 000 barrels of oil and aviation petrol I had been sent to Japan daily for [ several months past. December shipments were more j than 110,000 barrels daily. Exports of ' aviation petrol to Russia had increased I since the invasion of Finland. Hp , added that oil producers felt it was . good business Io deal with Russia and I Japan. JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS EXTENSIVE STUDY WHEN I TREATY EXPIRES I Received Jan. 19. 1.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Senator Pittman announced that< the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was subjecting Japanese-American relations to an extensive study at th- j earliest possible opportunity following the expiration of the commercial i treaty on January 26. He was invit- j ing the testimony of Mr. Cordell Hull and others of the State Department.! after which a study would be made; of the two pending proposals for an . embargo on exports to Japan and an J embargo on munitions and other materials likely to aid the war on China. ■
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 5
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