The real reason, he declares, why the Americans want to end treaty trade relations with Japan is to enable them to try to hamper Japanese operations in China by shutting off supplies of American goods that will help Japan to prosecute successfully her campaign on the continent, specially iron and steel, iron and sicel scrap, petroleum and motor trucks, He rays he does not anticipate that the United States will impose such an embargo at once, but it seems that the Americans want to hold the threat of such action over the heads of the Japanese, in other words to carry on a "war of nerves" against Japan, with the expectation of checking her progress in China.
As a matter of fact it seems that the present intention of the American Government is to avoid discriminating against Japanese in the United States as well as Japanese merchandise and shipping after the treaty expires, Mr. Tamura continues, but evidently this situation is not to that railway, and the Japanese authorities hold definite evidence Tioving that to be the case. This evidence was obtained in the course
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