Tokyo, Oct. 10.
The Foreign Office to-day issued a statement clarifying the recent order providing import and export restrictions starting on October 11.
The list, which has been considerably shortened since the original announcement, places no restrictions on cotton, wool and lumber when used for the manufacture of articles for exportation. These three articles are considered indispensible to Japan.
The remaining 260 articles are considered not urgently necessary nor entirely unnecessary but can be imported only upon permission of the Ministry of Commerce, with the exception of articles not exceeding Y.50 in value which are unrestricted, it was explained.
The Gaimusho said the restrictions were temporary but must be applied [now because of serious national necessity, requiring the people #0 economize.
"When the present affair ends, the restrictions will be removed as greater part of Friday.
During the trip, points both north and south of the special train were frequently bombed by Japanese planes, but the train itself, which prominently displayed three large Union Jacks, met with no harm.
All precautions were taken to ensure a safe journey. Besides the large fags displayed on top of the train, Nanking, Tokyo and the Japanese Commander-in-Chief in Stanghal, Admiral Hasegawa, were informed of the trip.
The departure of the 250 men from the Capetown, which is marooned in the Yangtze, leaves a personnel of less than 100 aboard the cruiser, just enough to take the ship to Shanghai a3 soon as the Yangtze is reopened for navigation.—Reuter, Special care was exercised on Satutday afternoon during the bombing operations by Japanese naval aircraft or. the Canton-Hankow railway to give wide berth to the special troop. train carrying 250 British officers, men. and marines from the cruiser Capetown to Hongkong, a naval spokes-ran announced yesterday.
At 430 o'clock on Saturday after-moon, the spokesman said, Japanese raval aircraft bombed a railway bridge south of Yingteh station. Later, he added, the planes flew over the railway station at Yingteh and saw the special train with British lags prominently displayed. Giving the station wide berth, the planes bombed. other sections of the railway, the spokesman asserted.
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