The Archive · 1940

Hongkong Bans Exports To Many Countries

Effort to Tighten British Blockade of Germany

Hongkong, Aug. 4.

In a move which well-informed Quarters here discern as clearly designed to tighten the blockade against. Germany, the Hongkong Government gazetted regulations on Friday prohibiting the export or re-export of goods to a number of countries except when authorized by the Government, when such goods would be required to follow special routes designated by the authorities.

The countries named ' were Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Soviet Russia, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Morocco, the Atlantic islands under Portugal, and Tangier.—Domei.

Not Retaliation U.S. Auto Workers Meanwhile, the Government continued to maintain a strict silence regarding the arrests, stating that they were made for the security of the nation and have no connection with Japanese arrests of British subjects in Japan.

The Japanese were understood to have been arrested under the Aliens Order.

Only the names of two of the three men arrested have been made known, They are Mr. Makihara and Mr. Shunsuke Tanabe, vice-manager of the Mitsui Trading Company. Mr. Tanabe arrived here from India about two months ago. He is married to an English woman, according to Condemn Aggression St. Louis, Ai The Auto Workers' Union of the Congress of Industrial Organizations adopted a resolution at its convention here yesterday involvement of the United Sta "war soil." resolution also condemned the dictatorships and aggression" Ger-

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