Tokyo, June 5.
Again the United States has shocked the Japanese by the forthcoming embarg on exports of important products to all countries. This step, it is felt here, is likely to seriously affect Japan and though it is realized that America's own, needs are of paramount im= Porlance, Japan suspects' that she will have to suffer the brunt of the new measure since means of evasion of the new: regulations will probably. countries. be found by certain favoured
'A well-informed official of the Japanese Army told me recently that if the Western nations will persistently cramp Japan's acquirements of vital supplies, Japan will naturally be foreed to turn towards the commerce and navi Japan Times" declares 'Even the Gaimusho, 1 continues, believes extension of the embargo to be very serious. Hope is. StI entertained that the embargo will not be enforced against all countries, however, and that its effect will not, be felt in' Japan.
The "Japan Times" voices doubt that American importers of raw sible and other commodities will risk [Japanese retaliation by stopping ex-orts of machinery and tools to Japan.
Nevertheless, the "Japan Times" states, there is ample ground for concern that machinery will not be the only export item affected by the moral embargo. For, it points out, if the United States increases its sistance to Britain and France, scrap fron and of may be included in the scope of the moral ambi Trade Bureau quarters are report ed.to fear that the norraal commercial relations that fave existed de facto between Japan and the United States since abrogation of the 1911 treaty may now be ruplured—Havas.
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