SECOND EDITION. THE MANDATORIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1709, 27 December 1919, Page 6

SECOND EDITION. THE MANDATORIES.

OBJECTION BY JAPAN. PARIS, Dec. 24. Japan has objected to the form of the Australasian mandates over the Pacific Islands, on the ground that they give Japan fewer advantages than she enjoyed under German rule.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WHY JAPAN OBJECTS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Received December 27, 1.5 p.m. . t PARIS, Dec. 26. The Supreme Council lias considered the suggestions prepared by the commission which recently sat in London regarding the mandates over the former German colonies. The first two concerned are the East African territories, ceded partly to Britain and Belgium, and were, approved. These will be administered according to the typo of mandate B (see aricl'p 22 of the League of Nations’ covenant). The other projects concerned according to type C, with an administration'similar to that of'.the mandatory nation were approved by throe {delegates .only, the Japanese re-, serving/ approbation in reference to. the British mandate over the Pacific Islands.Count Matsui.objected on the grounds that if the Australian regime applied ’ to the islands, Japanese.- immigration would , be debarred as { it . was. m .Australia, Japan’s position i thus would be'worse than before the war when, by ‘agreements with Germany, she had full freedom of Immigration into the' various Cenlmn ' possessions.' Matsui added such a state of things would be paradoxical after Japan’s naval effort, which, especially at the outset of the war, assured the policing of the Pacific.