Jerusalem, Feb. 4.
The death sentence was to-day passed by the Military Court here on a Jewish police supernumerary named Altma, who was convicted of firing on Arabs in an omnibus. He is the -first Jew to be sentenced to death since the establishment of the Second; The Japanese Government has unfortunately not seen its way to subscribing to the London Naval Treaty nor has hitherto felt able to give any assurances' that treaty limits would in practice be adhered to by it.
Third; As the Japanese Govern ment will be aware, the naval treaty gives the American Government the right of escalation in the event of building not in conformity with treaty limits by a Power not a party thereto.
There for some time have been persistent and cumulative reports which in absence of explicit assurances from the Japanese Government that they are unfounded must be deemed authentic that Japan has undertaken or intends to undertake the construction of capital ships and cruisers not in conformity with the above limits.
The American Government has therefore decided that it will be Necessary to exercise Us right of escalation unless the Japanese Government can furnish the aforesaid assurances and satisfy the American Government that it will not prior to January 1, 1943 lay down, complete or acquire any vessel which does not conform to the limits in question without previously informing the American Government of its intention to 10 so- and of the tonnage and the calibre of the largest Run on the vessel or vessels concerned,
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