JAPANESE OUTPOSTS
MANDATED ISLANDS INTENTION TO FORTIFY TOKIO, Sept. 7. The Sciyukai Party’s programme, the main feature of which is the strengthen ing of defence, will be carried out by the new National Government of Japan, .which is composed of th# Sciyukai and Liberal parties, who hold 90* per cent of the seats in the P ; et. The policy of the Government, according to the Premier, Baron Saito, includes the making of the mandated islands the first lino of defence, and adequate provision for further defence, on the expiry of the Washington and London treaties. When Japan left the League of Nations in March, it was suggested that, being no longer bound by the covenant which prohibits the fortification of mandated territories, Japan’s mandated islands might ho armed, and the Government’s avowed intention to now make the islands the first linn of defence is a reversal of the previously declared policy. When it was suggested that Japan should not retain the mandates after quitting the League, Japan made it clear that she would not forfeit. them, but would not fortify them.
The question of finance is all-import-ant. Japan has already spent- C2.0C0.0C0 on her islands—mandated and otherwise.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18194, 15 September 1933, Page 7
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