The close connection between Japan's future supplies of oil—lubricants as well as high-test gasoline—and the continuation of her war on the Continent is not generally realized. A month ago the leading American oil companies (Havas, February 23) agreed to comply with the State Department's "moral embargo" and cease supplying Japan with plans and information for the construction of a plant for the production of the type of gasoline which is an absolute necessity for the operation of fighting aircraft. This should be welcome news in hundreds of towns and villages of interior China.
This week's issue of The China Weekly Review contains the first instalment of an important article dealing with the oil situation in Japan, domestic production as well as imports. The article was written by Herbert Leopold and probably is the most complete analysis of the subject which has appeared in any journal.
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