CLAIM ON NAURU.

Northern Advocate, 3 January 1922, Page 4

CLAIM ON NAURU.

NEW ZEALAND INTERESTS. Although doubts have raised owing to the wording of the new,- Pacific pact, it is not considered likeK- in official quarters that Great Britain, New Zealand, and Australia will be eompell- | ed to surrender any part of tiheir interests in the valuable island o!f Nauru to the United States. The reservation which gives the United States- (jf America equal rights with of the League of Nations in those territories in the South Pacific, which belonged to Germany, will, however, probably give rise to some diploma'fm negotiations on the subject. deferring to the question !j n Melbourne, Mr W. M. Hughes that the President of the United States was a party to the "C" class mandates and the basic principles thereof. Ho was al-m a party to the arrangement whereby the British Empire was n mandate over Nauru. Of course !tlie fact that the Legislature of the United .States did not ratify the treaty was a point which had to be taken < into consideration, but as that country wa i " fully represented by her Pres/dent, and she was, through him, a party to the allocation of the mandates, . j+i could | hardly be contended that 'matter could be adjusted 011 any t>ther basis than that now existing. .' Under the pact, however, America wc*!,i,-| probably be entitled to make representations in respect to tl|; s am j ,*. U ch other mandates as were eow, r £,i by the provision? of tike pact. j»