Berlin, June 17, Faced with the second fait occomplt by the United States in. three days. the German Government yesterday continued to maintain' silence on Reich relations with the US. following President Roosevelt's order closing all German consulates and pro-la_agencies and expulsion of their German employees.
German sources, apparently surprised by the President's order, declined to state whether they believed Germany would take retaliatory measures.
'No official comment has been made as yet on the United States' action of "freezing Axis credits—United Press, Washington, June 17.
Mr, Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, yesterday' ordered customs Jofeials' to halt, shipment of 252,000 gallons of lubricating oil to. Japan Jaboard the Azuma Maru, The shipment was to have been' made from Philadelphia, An Interior Department spokesman said there was no question of inter-Jnational oil policy involved in. halt-jing the shipment but that the depart men was "co-ordinating supplies on the east coast 'Mr. Tekes, the spokesman said, Was asking, Gen. R. L. Maxwell, 2 Control Administrator, to consider banning east coast oil' shipments in view of. a threatened seaboard all shortage—United Press,
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