The Archive · 1939

Four Ships Allowed Through

Tokyo, Dec. 6.

Four Japanese vessels carrying Gel man exports will leave European waters for Japan within the next two weeks, a spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Office revealed today, Three Japanese ships, he said, would clear Rotterdam before December 20 and one would sail from London. All would carry German goods, he added.

The spokesman said that the British Givernment, which has announced it would seize all German exports on neutral vi s paying the "greatest consideration" to the Japanese protest against the confiscation of German goods aboard Japanese vessels and that technical negotiations were now getting under way bette Japanese and British authorities, He would not comment when asked if British officials had agreed to Japan's request that German exports on Japanese ships not be seized—Domei,

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