The Archive · 1940

News Agency Manager Meld

British arrests of Japanese nationals spread further when Singapore police authorities detained Mr. Ishiro Kobayashi, manager of the Singapore Bureat of the Dome! News Agency.

Mr, Kobayashi was picked up by the police yesterday when they called this home.

The Japanese Embassy said last hight that only five Britons remained lurider arrest in Japan as a result of the release of four Britons over the weekend. British authorities, "how ever, said that seven Britons stil were Japanese eustody.—United Press US. Petrol Ban Hurts Japan Washington, Aug.

ud China are both highly ton the United States' for aviation petrol, but 'China will "be Jews affected by President Roosevelt's order banning its export than Japan, a high' Government authority told the United Press. yesterday.

China's main supply ehannel_ was blocked when Great Britain closed the Burma road. he said, The onl sources of "high rade, processed petroleum: suitable "for" conversion ute" aviation gasoline on which

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