JAPAN'S MANDATES.
! ISLANDS NOT FORT!FED. PERSISTENT REPORTS DENIED. Received 9 a.m. ..NEW YORK Nov. 13. The Chicago Tribune's Tokio correspondent interviewed Captain NomI ura, the Naval Minister's aide de camp who said that every report that JapaH was fortifying, or planning to fortify, or establish naval bases, in any of the mandated Islands was completely false. There was no reason why an independent investigation should not be made in order to see the existing conditions. "I have already informally suggested )' he said, "that the American Naval Attache should visit the Islands in view of the many persistent allegations in the foreign press regarding Japanese fortifications"
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3628, 15 November 1920, Page 5
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105JAPAN'S MANDATES. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3628, 15 November 1920, Page 5
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