Tallinn, Oct. 15.
The first batch of Soviet tro numbering about 300, landed in the Esthonian port of Paldiski today
-|new pact between Russia from a transport and a warship. The an Esthonia allows Soviet troops to garrison certain districts in Esthonia.
One Soviet cruiser and ten smaller warships anchored in Tallinn Bay on Sunday.—Reuter.
Washington, Oct. 16.
An amendment to the Administration's neutrality bill which would relax shipping restrictions on American commerce in the Pacific will be drafted this week in a secret meeting of Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, it was disclosed here last night.
A compromise, it is believed, will be adopted in which President Roosevelt will be given discretionary powers to exempt areas remote from the European war zone from the neutrality pill's shipping bans. The amendment, however, would require that the President withdraw such exemptions whenever American ships are endangered. Under the amendment, therefore, American trade with moeminglly belligerent nations such as New Zealand and South Africa could continue.
Administration leaders were confident that the proposed amendment was assured of approval in the Senate, particularly because it would have the support of several Pacific coast Senators who have led the isolationist fight against the neutrality bill's proposal to repeal the arms embargo provisions of the present Neutrality Act.
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