ARMS SHIPMENTS FORBIDDEN
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United States Transport to the East NO PLANES FOR CHINA
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(Received 16, 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. President Roosevelt has issued a statement forbidding vessels owned by the United States Government_ from tran'sporting arms and ammunition to Japan and China. Other vessels under the American flag can attempt such transport only at their own risk. It is indieated that the step does not constitute an invocation of the Ncutrality Act. The statement conclucted: "The que3Uon of applying the Neutrality Act remains at the status quo. The Goverument's policy remains on a twenty-foui hour basis." The Washington correspondent of the New Yorlc Times expresaes the opiniou that the order brings measurably nearer tKe time when the Act may be invoked. Tho first consequences of the order will bo the stoppage of a shipment of 19 Bellanca aeroplanes which wero going to China from San Pedro (California).
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 206, 16 September 1937, Page 5
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