Vichy, Aug. 1
The frst unofficial list made available today of the Frenchmen whose fortunes and private estates are to be confiscated under the new decree because of their flight abroad between May 20 and June 30 includes two among the biggest bankers in France.
Prominent journalists and industrialists are also included in. the list. Those on the list stand to lose their personal property and their French nationality unless they can prove to have had good reasons for their flight abroad.
Count Edouard de Rothschild, head of the French brank of the great international banking house of Rothschild, and M. Louis-Louis Dreyfus, former deputy and a great importer of South American wheat, are named Washington, Aug: 1.
Japan and China are both highly dependent on the United States for aviation petrol, but China will be less affected by President Roosevelt's order banning its export than Japan, a high Government authority told the United Press yesterday.
China's main supply channel was blocked when Great Britaih closed ihe Burma road, he said. The only sources of high grade, processed petroleum suitable for conversion into aviation gasoline on which Japan could rely at present are the United States, he Netherlands East Indies, and Venezuela. Only small quantities may be obtained in the last two countries, he said.
Japan, however, probably woül operate her military aeroplanes n a poorer quality of aviation petrol than could the United States or European mations, because they are confronted with less severe competition from Chinese war planes, this authority continued. Thus, whereas the United States Army iñ- sists on grades of from 87 to 100 test octane gasoline, Japanese planes possibly could operate on 70 to 75.
Meanwhile, simultaneously with Mr. Roosevelt's order prohibiting the export of aviation petrol outside the Western Hemisphere, the Department of Commerce issued statistics showing that Japan obtained only 5,048 barrels of aviation petrol in June. Total non-American purchases of aviation petrol during the first six months of this year was 1,213,662: barrels, of which Japan bought 105,662 barrels.
Japan was the United States' fifth most important customer in petrol purchases in June, ranking behind France, the United Kingdom, South Africa and British East Africa, Japan, however, was third most important in the six months ranking, behind only behind France and the United Kingdom.
Japanese purchases in June and the first six months of last year were 24221 and 341,286 barrels respectively.—United Press.
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