EXPORT OF PETROL
PROHIBITED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO PLACES OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. IN INTERESTS OF NATIONAL DEFENCE. President Roosevelt announces that he has forbidden the export of aviation petrol to places outside the Western Hemisphere, a Daventry broadcast reports. The ban comes into force today. The step has been taken, he states, in the interests of national defence. — SCOPE OF ORDER (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 31. President Roosevelt has banned the export of aviation gasoline outside the Western Hemisphere. The order bars Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan from access to United States aviation fuel. JAPANESE CONCERN BAN VIEWED SERIOUSLY. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 31. The ban on the export of aviation petrol prevents the resale to nonAmericans of petrol from a Western Hemisphere purchaser. Japanese Embassy sources indicated that Japan will view the ban very seriously.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1940, Page 5
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