Japan’s Mandated Isla ds

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1922, Page 4

Japan’s Mandated Isla ds

NOW l*Ni)K’.t CIVIL SM'LK. SM3NKV, April ». Awarding to ini'ormatimn '.ru.-L.*i\ccl i„ Sydnev by tl,e Consul-General lor Japan, the mandated territories in tlie North Pacific Oi-uui bare now been Lransteired ie tlie civil admin,stration. Ip to .-Mil Ist "Len the transfer took place, they .were under Hm control ol' the .Naval IhparUicul. 'Civ new administration is called the yonc iioo” tin' South Sea ■o\ll n n.eut and is no-- under the emili'ol ol the Japanese Cabinet. Simr.bc.m, m.slv, the Naval Defence C orps m Llms ■' islands has ceased to it will be n nit inhered that. '>\ Hie 'lreaLy of Versailles, Japan iKei'.ed roughly, all tiie Herman colonics m llfe'Vaeilie. Ocean, north of the equator. One ol the ) osse.-.sions ol (u:niaity ceded to Jnp.in by Unit meaty was the Alarieune or i.abiotic i-Huds, except Guam. Kipan is the seat ol government in this group. Hu mi is an American fuss ess uni., InHmled '.main the mandate were the C arolhic Islands. whit h consists el about 'T'J coral islets, which include Yep. This island was the subject of much negotiation willi the tYiiicd States, and a iinal treaty regai ding it was not signed until Kebiunry of this year, one of the settlements Oiectcd through the agency of the Yin hingtcu Conference. Iho .Marshal! Islamic, which consist ol two chains or r. as of laeooii islands, were also ceded to .Japan as a mandatory. Copt a is the chief export from all these islands.