THE YAP MANDATE.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1923, Page 3

THE YAP MANDATE.

OFFICIAL JAPANESE REPORT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. (Deceived this day at 3.30 a.in.) WASHINGTON. July 2(1. The Sttite Department has received the official report from too Japanese Government in accordance with the Japanese-Americau Treaty, signed at the Washington Conference, on the administration of the Pacific Islands under the Japanese mandate. The report states that the provisional Japanese naval garrison has been abolished and no military -or naval liases have been established in Yap or in other Japanese mandated territories in the Pacific, and no defence or ruilitarv organisations have been maintained on the islands. There is only a small guardship patrolling tile surrounding seas. The revenue from the Islands comprised onlv a fifteenth of the expenditures which were C.4iM.<KX).(X)O yen Phosphates constituted the principal source of revenue, amounting to '-’ft.Odd tons, valued at 435.0CX1 yen. Freedom of religious faith is permitted. and Christian missionaries are granted all facilities. The consumption of alcoholic liquors is rigourionsly regulated to low alcoholic content beverages.