YAP MANDATE.
A JAPANESE STATEMENT.
(By Oablc—Press Association—Copyright.} (Australiati »pd • N.Z. Catotj Association.)
(Received March-27th, 5.5 p.m.) TOKIO, March 26.
The Foreign Office, in a statement regarding the Japanese mandatory intentions at Yap, declares that Japan will promote the moral and material happiness of the inhabitants, and -sea«r the present uial-a<lministration with_ civil government. The communique reiterates that Japan has no intention qf establishing military and naval bases, and calls attention to the exaggerated economic and strategic value of the island. It might as well be said that the United States obtained control of the Atlantic by the purchase of the Virgin Islands, as say that by a mandate over the South Pacific Isles Japan has staked the' sea area from Kamschatka to the South Pacifio. The Foreign Office denies that Japan is shifting the administrative headquarterp of the Marshall Islands from Jaluic to Woese for strategic purposes, or preventing the landing of foreign merchants.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17104, 28 March 1921, Page 7
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