WASHINGTON, July 21.— The House of Representatives’ Merchant Marine Committee today approved a Bill to block petroleum shipments to any foreign country unless the Secretary of Commerce certified that such exports would not interfere with national defence or security. The Bill arose out a committee of inquiry into shipments of petroleum products to Russia,…
SHANGHAI, July 22. Rumours of impending changes in the Executive Yuan (Chinese Cabinet) were current in political and commercial circles here as Nationalist China prepared for the visit of Gen Wedmeyer, President Truman’s “fact-finder,” and his mission. It was unofficially reported that to enable the Government to carry out its general mobilization order for…
NANKING, July 22. Lieut-Gen Ressuke Isagai, 65-year-old Governor of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Chinese war crimes court today. One of the charges against him was that he “poisoned the people of Hong Kong by the sale of opium” during his term. Another charge was that…
LITTLE LIKELIHOOD OF INSURRECTION LONDON, July 22—U Tin Tut, Burma’s Minister without portfolio and High Commissioner-Designate to Britain, and U Ko Gyi, Vice-President of the Burma Socialist Party, on the eve of their departure from London today for Rangoon, gave an exclusive message for the Burmese people. Speaking for both, U Tin Tut said, On…
SHANGHAI July 21.—Gen Fu Tso Yi, Governor of Suiyuan, the Chinese province bordering Outer Mongolia, who is visiting Nanking, today denied reports that Outer Mongolia troops had penetrated 65 miles into Chinese territory. He also denied that they had set up their own Outer Mongolian border Government. (The Nanking Government sent a protest Note…
LONDON, July 21.— The distribution of rice in Malaya and other Far Eastern countries would be affected by the withdrawal of Brazil from the International Emergency Food Council, Mr. W. Fletcher (Cons) said in the House of Commons today. Brazilian rice was being dealt with in large quantities in other countries within the IEFC…