OIL FOR JAPAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1940, Page 6

OIL FOR JAPAN

NEGOTIATIONS WITH DUTCH INDIES SUPPLY UNDER CONDITIONS. REPORTED DISCLAIMER BY TOKIO. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, October 22. The Bremen radio stated that the Japanese Minister of Commerce Mr S. Kobayashi) hopes to return to Batavia shortly. The problem of oil is being debated separately from other questions. Japan needs more than the Dutch have so far offered. The British United Press Batavia correspondent says well-informed circles declared that English. Dutch and American interests handling oil produced in the Dutch East Indies have agreed to supply Japan under certain conditions. The Singapore “Straits Times” says it is reliably reported that a joint Japanese-Dutch memorandum Mr Kobayashi recently signed said in effect that Japan does not include the Dutch East Indies within the sphere of the new order in Asia. It is understood that the document was drawn up as a result of the alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan, which the Dutch, considered a serious obstacle to the continuance of the oil negotiations. MEXICO IN LINE CONCESSION TO JAPAN CANCELLED. AND BID FOR SCRAP IRON REJECTED. (Received This Day, Noon.) MEXICO CITY, October 22. A high Government Official announced that President Cardenas had decided to cancel the oil concession granted to Japan a few days ago as “an act of continental solidarity.” It is also revealed that the Mexican Government rejected a Japanese bid for 18,000 tons of scrap iron, because of tension in the Pacific and because it did not want it to appear that Mexico was selling scrap to Japan which she might use against the United States.