EX-GERMAN ISLANDS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1921, Page 5

EX-GERMAN ISLANDS.

AN AMERICAN INVESTIGATION. By Talsgraph —Press Assn —Copyright Washington, Jan. 21. The Senate 'oreign Relations Committee decided to undertake a special study of the political and strategic position in the Pacific, embracing the status of Yap and other ex-German islands north of the equator, and the question of ex-German cables to Yap. Senator Lodge conferred with Mr. Davis, who will appear before the committee and communicate various unpublished documents drawn up at the Peace Conference concerning the subject. It is understood that the committee will probably again investigate the Shantung question and the Japanese occupation of Vladivostock, Saghalien and the Korean border country. President Wilson is understood 'to have consented to lay official records before the committee, which is especially anxious to obtain the warning of the general board of the United States navy against permitting the Japanese to obtain possession of the Pacific Islands. It is paid that Senator Lodge and his colleagues are also curious to know whether the alleged secret Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1917 may interfere with America having cable and radio stations at Yap. They say that President Wilson thus far has only informed them that he made a reservation* in. Paris regarding Yap and obtained an oral assurance :bat the International Communications Congress, which met recently in Washihgton, would determine the disposition of the island. The congress, however, has not yet reached an agreement.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.