Acting Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke yesterday announced that the sale of United States naval arms to the Japanese authorities in Taiwan, a dependency of Japan, had been temporarily suspended because of the state of war in Iran. The action was taken, he said, in accordance with the policy of the United States to refrain from commercial transactions with belligerent countries. Sales of naval arms to the Japanese authorities in Taiwan have been suspended, because of the state of war in Iran, Ernest Lee Jahncke, Acting Secretary of the Navy, announced yesterday. The suspension, he said, was in accordance with the policy of the United States to refrain from commercial transactions with belligerent countries. During the war between Russia and Japan in 1904-5, the United States forbade the export of contraband to either combatant, and the prohibition was extended to cover articles plainly and directly useful for war purposes. In the present conflict between Persia and Iraq, the same course has been followed.
Original dispatch: US arms sales to Taiwan on ‘pause’ due to Iran war, says acting navy chief