SECRET COMPACT
JAPAN AND GERMANY. r CLAIM TO ISLANDS. J GENEVA INTRIGUED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 13, 9.50 a.m. PARIS, April 12. Mile. Tabouis, tlie well-informed correspondent, writing in L’Oeuvre, says information has, reached Geneva of a secret Japanese-German understanding which was concluded at the beginning of the year. Jt is believed that Germany surrenders to Japan all claim to tlie Marshall and Marianne islands, in the Pacific. Pointed comment is made at Geneva over Germany s apparent willingness to abandon a.l claims to these islands while demanding that France and Britain restore lormer German possessions in other parts of the world. Under the Treaty of Versailles Germany renounced the sovereignty of all her overseas possessions, and the German Pacific islands north of the Equator were' placed under Japanese control. These are the Marshall, Caroline, and Marianne Groups.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 112, 13 April 1936, Page 7
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