MANDATORY RIGHTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1716, 6 January 1920, Page 5

MANDATORY RIGHTS.

THE JAPANESE CLAIMS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian Now Zealand Gable Association Received January 6, 9.25 a.m. PARIS, Jan. 5.

The Japanese reservation in respect to mandates is regarded as a further effort to secure racial recognition. It is anticipated that when tho full conference resumes the Japanese will seek to secure recognition ol equality in the mandates and probably take tho view that the League of Nations should not discriminate between nationalities ineluded in tho League on tho question of immigration to tho mandatory territories, and that legislation by any particular nation holding tho mandate should not pc allowed to inflict disabilities on other parties to tho League, in territories for which too League merely delegates its trusteeship. It is not considered likely the British will accede to any departure from the methods adopted at the conference when a highly placed mombef of tho British delegation expressed tho opinion that tho laws of the country holding the mandate should bo applicable to the territory. Tho Japanese, if unsuccessful now, will carry the demand to the first assembly of tho League of Nations.