Tokyo, May 30.
Japanese Foreign Office authorities interpret application of the United States export control act to the Philippines as part of American economic pressure on the Axis Powers, the "Asahi" said yesterday.
Authorities discounted U. S. assertions that the action was necessary for conservation of materials vital to the islands.
Whatever counter measures Japan adopts will depend on actual enforcement of the export control act, authorities said.
The "Nichi Nichi." meanwhile, reported in a despatch from Manila that customs authorities there yesterday ordered the Kawasaki Shipping Company's freighter Kunikawa Maru to cease loading scrap iron. The same order was issued affecting the Mitsui Company's freighter Atlantic Maru. which was due to load iron ore at Legaspi. P. I—United Press.
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