CONTROL OF YAP
AMERICA CANNOT SURRENDER CABLES
tU’ IViparanr, • assm'slum — Australian and N Csbi* As.-,k;li'io»
Rec April 22 () n.m. Was ingto.i, April 21
Mr Daniel, in a speech at Memphis, Tennes,e, pointed out that Anu-rica could not surrender the Yap cables, even if it should mean war with Japan, though that was h irdiy pos-ihD- America would Sc.cr.fice eu.y principle for which, she fought in the aar if she allowed .ae nation to control tiv.t single >pot. He added that he did not he!'eve the reports that Japan during the next few years would denude her navy. He concluded that it would be serious for J .pan and tiring a diet of coni bread to America for nations to enter upon competitive battleship buiiuiim at this time-
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7676, 22 April 1921, Page 3
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127CONTROL OF YAP Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7676, 22 April 1921, Page 3
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