New York, Feb. 20.
Strikes have tied up 18 defence industries affecting 22,000 workers throughout the United States, a survey showed yesterday, The plants were working on Government orders valued at US$85,000,- 000. Largest of the orders tied up is at a plant, in Milwaukee where production on US$40,000,000 worth of trucks and tanks has been delayed since January 22,—United Press. sider the Ambassadorship, anticipating a "series of delaying actions" which he thought a diplomat and not a sailor should handle, The Foreign Minister, Mr, Yosuke Matsuoka, enlisted the pressure of senior and active naval officers who are said to have finally convinced Admiral Nomura by emphasizing that the Imperial Navy has been long out of sympathy with extremists who forced the Manchurian War and the China conflict,
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