JAPAN IN THE PACIFIC.
OCCUPATION OF ISLANDS.
FOR MILITARY PURPOSES.
Tokio, October 20. It is officially announced that the Japanese have occupied the Marshall Islands and the East and West Caroline Archipelago for military purposes.
T .P% Mars . ha " Islands -nd the Caroline Islands, which were lormerly German possessions lie to the north-east of New iRh^ 0 " •*i? Marshall Group embraces 35 islands, with an estimated area of 160 ThTohw ® 8 l a j d ? P°P nla tion of 15,000. +,i , ! a , nd of the group is Jaluit. The total land area of the Caroline archiSfkln? ' Uare miles > and out 01 tins 307 square'miles is covered by the and mam islands—Ponape, Kuaie, Truk mated 36,000. 1 P ° PUlati ° n is esti -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15746, 22 October 1914, Page 5
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