JAPAN AND AMERICA.
RUMOUR . ALARMS T0K10. ; LEASE OF KAMCHATKA. Times. TOKIO, Sept. 23. The Japanese press is concerned with the rumour that America has leased the peninsula of Kamchatka, in the north-east of Asia, for the purpose of wireless installations. Whatever the truth of the report may be, the Government is strongly urged to assert Japan's position as the leading Eastern Power.
The peninsula of Kamchatka stretches out from the north -east of Siberia into the North Pacific Ocean, between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Behring Sea. It has an area of 104,260 square miles, but the fiopulatiot) on the peninsula is only a ittle over 7000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17274, 25 September 1919, Page 7
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108JAPAN AND AMERICA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17274, 25 September 1919, Page 7
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