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EMBARGO ON WAR MATERIALS. TOKIO URGES SERIOUS CONSIDERATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) TOKIO. July 26. The Foreign Office is reported to have instructed its diplomats in Washington to inquire of the United States its true intentions of enforcing an embargo and to ask the United States to give serious consideration to the matter to avoid an aggravation of Japan-ese-American relations. It. is unofficially indicated that Japan may consider cutting off the United States’ supply of rubber and zinc from the South Seas in retaliation for the embargo on the export of scrap iron and petroleum. It is regarded as certain that the embargo will stimulate Japanese activity in the South Seas.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1940, Page 5
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117U.S.A. & JAPAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1940, Page 5
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