JAPANESE MANDATES.
STARTLING ALLEGATIONS. PORTS CLOSED TO FOREIGNERS. SUSPICIONS AROUSED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Nov. 6, 3.15 p.m.) GENEVA, Nov. 5. The Mandates Commission discussed the startling allegations to the effect that Japan had prohibited foreign vessels visiting and using harbours of certain mandated islands in the Pacific.
The delegates questioned the Japanese representative, Count Ito regarding reports that the American astronomical expedition had been refused permission to visit the islands to observe the eclipse of the sun, pointing out that if they were true they lent colour to the stories that the Japanese were fortifying the islands. Count Ito, ? in a somewhat reserved reply, characterised the reports as mendacious and declared that Japan Itself had organised an expedition to view the eclipse and invited foreigners to accompany it. He promised to Investigate specific cases. Members then suggested that Japan could easily prove her sincerity by allowing foreign vessels to call and Inspect the islands. Count Ito did not reply.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19407, 6 November 1934, Page 8
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