PACIFIC PROBLEM

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 20, 24 January 1921, Page 7

PACIFIC PROBLEM

JAPANESE IN THE ISLANDS

AMERICAN SENATE INQUIRY

(UMITHP PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COI'IRIGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, 21st January. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has decided to undertake a special study of the political and strategic position in the Pacific, embracing the status of Yap and the other es^Gennan islands north of the Equator, and the questioa of the isx-Qerman cables to Yap. Senator Lodge conferred .with Mr. B. G. Davis, who will appear before the Committee and communicate various unpublished documents drawn up at the Peace Conference,concerning the subject. It is understood, that the Committee will probably again investigate the Stantung question and the Japanese occupation of Vladivostok, Sakhalin, and,the Korean border country. President Wilson, it is understood, has consented to place the official records before the Committee, which is especially anxious to obtain the warning of the General Board of the United States Navy to the President against permitting the Japanese to obtain possession of the Pacific' Islands.

It is said that Senator Lodge and his colleagues are also curious to know whether tJie ■ alleged secret Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1917 may interfere with America having cable and radio stations at Yap. They say President Wilson has thus.far only informed them that he had made a reservation in Paris regarding Yap, and obtained an oral assurance that the International Communications Congress, which met recently- in Washington, _ would determine the disposition of the island. Congress, however, has not yet reached an agreement.