JAPAN'S MANDATED ISLANDS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17430, 15 April 1922, Page 13

JAPAN'S MANDATED ISLANDS.

NOW UNDEB CIVIL BUUB. (FBOII OT7S OWN COBBEffIPONDENT.j SYDNEY, April 8. According to information received in Sydney by t!ho Consul-General for Japan, the mandated territories in the. North Pacific Ocean have now been, transferred, to the civil admiiustration. D p to April Ist, when: the transfer took place, they were under the control of the Naval, Department. The . new administration is called/ tlje "Nanyoochoo"—the South Sea' is now under the control of the Japanese Cabinet. Simult u neou's3y, tlhe Naval, Defence. Corps in. those islands . hea ceased to exist. It - will be remembered that,- by-.tha. Treaty of Versailles, Japan rieceiredj roughty, all. the German colonies in the i Pacific Ocean north of the equator. One I of the pos&skibnsof Germany oeded : to Japan-by tliat Treaty'was the Mari'nne, or-kadrone Islands, except Gnrm. Sipaa ie tlie seat ofjgovemment in thiajjKrap.Guam is an American possession. • tineluded also in the mandate were the Caroline IsUnde, whMi consists of about 500 coral islets, and which includo Yap. This' island wae the subject of much negotiation, with,tho United States,-and a. final treaty regarding it was not signed until- February- of this year, oa cmo of the settlements effected through the agencyoo f the "Washington' Conference The Marshall Islands, wfhich. co»sist of tiro chains or rowtf of lagoon islands, were also oeded to Japan ae a mandatory. Copra ia the chief export from all theae islands. , .