Hyde Park, Sept. 1. ened the United States" hand in the President Roosevelt again strength-
Far East yesterday when he opened new oil supply line to the Philip-Dines for American forces in the Far Under his unlimited emergency powers the President revoked the 37-year-old prohibition against shipments of gasoline. fuel oil and other lubricants to the Philippines in vessels of foreign registry. 1 As in previous actions in the ment but it appeared certain that it was designed to exert steadily inqreasine economic pressure against japan.
Supply from N.E.I, There was no explanation of what foreign flag ships might henceforth carry lubricants to American forces in the Philippines, but the order would permit British and Dutch tankers operating from the Netherlands Bast Indies to establish all important supply lines for petroleum from the South Seas to the United States Army in the Far East.
Establishment of such a supply line from the Dutch Indies to the Philippines would relieve some of the pressure on the continental United States caused by the tanker shortage.
With petroleum on the eastern seaboard already critically short due to the transfer of American tankers to Britain, the United States could not afford to assign tankers, of sufficient tonnage to sun" Philippines Army, for use between the United States and Manila, at least immediately.
The Army Department Commander in the Philippines was empowered to make contracts and revise existing agreements which was expected to start the flow of East Indies lubricants to the Philippine storage depots immediately—United Press Italians Arrest, Free Swiss Soldiers Milan. Sept. 1 on the Lake M fore border stopped Ttalian frontier guards stationed temporary on. Frida; Swiss Soldiers who, coming eidently landed on Sain i territory, from Switzerland in a rowboat, ac-
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