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Show NETHERLANDS, JAPAN, -BELGIUM. AROUSED-BY;-TIG11TEN1NG SEA NET English Report Defense for Air Mines ;, By WALLACE CARROLL LONDON, Nov. .24 , (UP) The Netherlands Is considering questioning in the world court at The Hague the legality of Britain's extension of economic warfare to German exports, well-informed diplomatic quarters quar-ters said today. The report circulated following action of the Belgian ambassador, Baron Cartler de MarcbJenne, in . visiting the foreign of flat and .Cling .Cl-ing a protest against th two-way blockade of Germany. A similar protest was filed by the Netherlands Nether-lands yesterday. " Japan WHI rrotaat '- Diplomatic quarters said that Japan also Intends to protest, b t will await formal issuance .of the . order In council authorising ex-. tension of the economic warfare. The Japanese government. It was said, is anxious lest the British measure prevent delivery to Japan of German machine tools urgently required by the Japanese armament arma-ment industry. . The Belgian' protest charged that the British' contraband control con-trol of German exports would violate vio-late the Paris declaration of 186 against blockading exports. British quarters, however, argue that the law of reprisals renders their proposed action entirely legal. It was expected that the order In council extending the blockade to German export would be issued Tuesday. . , : Map Mine Defeases . Naval authorities assured the British public today that they had means of combating "parachute" and "magnetic" mines which Ger- man fliers have been sowing along the British coast and ship channels, even in the estuary of the Thames river near London., While he gave no Indication of what the navy planned to do, a spokesman -said that these mines, believed to have contributed 'to the loss of 24 ships In and near British waters since Saturday, did not .take the admiralty by surprise sur-prise and that "appropriate counter-measures" already had been devised. It was encouraging news to Brit- -on who during the last two days had seen "balloon" bomb splashing splash-ing into the sea from black German Ger-man bombing planes, within view of the shore, and who feared that Adolf Hitler's much publicised "secret weapon" had been an-leashed an-leashed upon them. Dropped by Ftocaotes . The report, mad after expert . study, that these mines cam down in a parachute which seemingly dissolved in the water, that the mines settled to the bottom and were drawn up by th magnetic . attraction of a passing ship bull, , had heightened the alarm. (Reports from Berlin indicated that the Germans planned some . new form of terror. Diplomatic and Political Correspondence, mouthpiece of th German foreign office, said Germany would reply to Great Britain's projected blockade block-ade "with warlike counter-measures whose effect certainly will not be less." and added that neutral ' countries "will do well to remain outside the theater of war and not allow themselves to serve as a protective shield for war measures aimed against th lit of th Gar-man Gar-man nation.") .'.,. The sea war I breaking la, full (Ceatloooit on Pun Fowl , (Column Onnl IU.S.DEFENSETAX TAX ISJIINTED (Osause tnm Pv Om) taxes cam whn a reporter suggested sug-gested the current business upturn might provide the treasury with greatly-increased revenue. The executive said he wasn't playing the market on that score. The president laughed at reports he was calling America's key ambassadors am-bassadors home from the European war son for consultation and report re-port Thes reports, he said, probably originated in the fact that both Joseph P. Kennedy, ambassador to London, and Joseph E. Davtes, ambassador am-bassador to Belgium, had requested permission to return to the United States for the Christmas season. This request has been granted In both cases with the proviso that should the situation abroad warrant war-rant both would take a clipper back to their posts immediately. Mr. Roosevelt mad public a letter let-ter he had written to Chairman E. R. Stettlnlus Jr. and other members mem-bers of the war resources board, thanking them for their labors In preparing a comprehensive industrial indus-trial mobilization plan as an adjunct ad-junct to national defense. The letter noted that the board, in its report suggested It had completed com-pleted its duties and might well disband. To this the president agreed, out asked all members to continue to act In an advisory capacity ca-pacity to the army and navy munitions muni-tions board. If current marvelous weather keeps up, and affairs in Washington Washing-ton permit Mr. Roosevelt said h might stay an extra day at his Warm Springs cottage, turning northward next Wednesday. He will stop briefly at Asheville, N. C to visit his secretary, Marvin H. Mclntyre, and Margaret Durand, secretary to the late Louis Howe. An Atlanta reporter gave Mr. Roosevelt an ore sample from the newly reopened mine near Dahlonega Dahlo-nega in northeast Georgia, It was heavily impregnated with gold. The executive examined It and sug- mmtmA trtfi tn h nnera with a load of dynamite. This afternoon, th president was officiating Informally at dedication ceremonies at a WPA community center in Warm Springs village named In honor of his mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt Tomorrow, th executive said h expected to receive th Georgia congressional delegation and discuss dis-cuss with them th problems of their state. |